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THE SMALL DIALOGUE called Ion has provoked more than its share of bewilderment, embarrassment and outrage. … Ast and Ritter pronounced it spurious, as did Wilamowitz for many years. When Wilamowitz ultimately changed his mind, he still judged it a poor and puzzling piece of work, an intolerant satire more than a dialogue. He found Socrates’ lecturing inconsistent with the question-and-answer technique of the early dialogues; he considered it the earliest of the dialogues, one of three written during Socrates’ lifetime. Plato’s intolerance towards poetry resulted then from his recent conversion by Socrates from poetry to philosophy.

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