The best medicine for knowledge about love is love itself. Longus's Daphnis and Chloe and Plato’s Phaedrus show that education about love is reached in different ways; while in Daphnis and Chloe, it is reached through a physical sexual encounter, in Phaedrus it is reached through a connection beyond a physical encounter. Daphnis and Chloe shows that the end means of education about love is reached through the physical encounter between two people. On the contrary, Plato provides a detailed understanding about how the knowledge of love is reached beyond the physical encounter between two people. These two texts develop a clear explanation about the education of love. Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe is a text in which the means of education about…show more content… In Phaedrus, the education about love is important for the understanding of knowledge. At the end of Socrates’ second speech, Socrates says “And whenever they are lying together is it completely unable… to deny any favor he might beg to have” (Plato 47). This evidence shows that when two lovers have a close physical encounter, each other are devoted to satisfy one another in any means that both are happy. Nevertheless, that is not the only goal of love, and later in that same passage Socrates says, “Now if the victory does to the better elements in both their minds, which lead them to follow the assigned regimen of philosophy, their life here below is one of bliss and shared understating” (47). This evidence demonstrates that the beyond lust of love is the grasp of philosophy from each other; this means that the understanding of love is reached once both surpass the ordinary sexual encounter and go to the desire for knowledge about everything. Hence, the only way to educate people about love is through the mental connection of reason and