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1 Plato, Meno. A serviceable translation available in paperback is by W. K. C. Guthrie (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1956).

2 General introductions to Plato’s thought include J. C. Gosling, Plato (London: Routledge, 1973), and A. E. Taylor, Plato: The Man and His Work (5th edn, London: Methuen, 1948).

3 For a stimulating discussion of the interchange between Socrates and Meno, see T. Irwin, Plato’s Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), ch. 9.

4 There is an excellent account of Plato’s views on knowledge in J. Annas, An Introduction to Plato’s Republic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980).

5 The nature of knowledge is discussed in many other works of Plato, especially the Theaetetus. A good starting point is F. M. Cornford, Plato’s Theory of Knowledge (London: Routledge, 1960). See also I. M. Crombie, An Examination of Plato’s Doctrines, vol. II (London: Routledge, 1963); N. P. White, Plato on Knowledge and Reality (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1976); R. Kraut (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), esp. chs 6, 9.

6 A comprehensive reference work covering many of the topics included in this part of the volume is J. Dancy and E. Sosa (eds.), A Companion to Epistemology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993, 2nd edn 2010).

7 For an in-depth guide with explanations of the different arguments in Plato’s Meno, see D. Scott, Plato’s Meno (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

8 In terms of online resources, you will find excellent summary entries in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy at https://www.iep.utm.edu/meno-2/ (by G. Rawson), and on Plato’s ethics https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-ethics/ (by D. Frede) in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

9 For a series of short podcasts on Plato’s dialogues including the Meno (Episode 21), see P. Adamson’s website The History of Philosophy without any gaps, in particular https://historyofphilosophy.net/Plato-life.

10 For a general site with links to original texts of Plato’s dialogues go to https://www.plato-dialogues.org/links.htm (maintained by B. Suzanne).