# Meno — Dialogues character guide

> Meno in Dialogues by Plato.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Meno O Socrates, Meno Socrates

**First appearance:** 0034-meno

## Snapshot

A confident Thessalian nobleman who arrives expecting to discuss virtue and leaves with a new and uncomfortable kind of perplexity.

## Who they are

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 to know it quickly, but his certainty unravels under questioning into the famous paradox of inquiry. His encounter with Socrates turns a social visit into one of the most enduring puzzles in philosophy.

## In the story

### [Meno](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dialogues_se/chapters/meno)

A young Thessalian nobleman who initially offers definitions of virtue but becomes perplexed as Socrates questions him.

### [Meno](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dialogues_se/chapters/meno)

A Thessalian nobleman and student of Gorgias, initially confident in defining virtue but quickly perplexed by Socrates' questioning.

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