Dialogues · Character
Meno
A confident Thessalian nobleman who arrives expecting to discuss virtue and leaves with a new and uncomfortable kind of perplexity.
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Also known as Meno O Socrates, Meno Socrates
First appearance: Meno
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Meno is wealthy, well-connected, and accustomed to getting answers, which makes him an ideal interlocutor for Socrates and an ideal target for his questions. He wants to know whether virtue can be taught, and he wants…
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- Other
Character groups
- Extended Cast of Dialogues
- Socrates' Accusers
- Philosophers and Interlocutors
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In this excerpt, the dramatic climax occurs when Erasistratus’s boastful praise of the Syracusan envoy’s immen…
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