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Meno, of course.

The deeply ironic and bitter ending, with Socrates's subtle but brutal mockery of Meno ending in the conclusion that virtue is just a whim of the gods, is one of the great accomplishments in all of literature, imo.

I only read The Republic, for A-level philosophy. It was hard but I liked it, it was a good translation that was clear and carried the metaphorical themes throughout. Then, at uni, the first thing they got me to read for the literature half of my degree was the bit of the republic where he shits on the poets, except it was a different translation and it was rubbish. I haven't read much philosophy at all since my degree (or during! LOL).

Not something I've spent a lot of time on during the course of my degree, but yeah, Meno is good. As is Eutyphro. Crito is kinda neat.

Wut about the Gorgias, bruh? The only dialogue where Socrates gets HOUSED IN A DEBATE BRUH. It's like the Thrasymachus debate from the Republic, but in this one, Callicles refuses to back down, and is considerably more clever and ruthless than Thrasymachus.

Jwar: it's like if the Joker were to kick Batman's ass.

The Meno changed my life. It was our first assigned reading in a general elective I was taking. Then I just kept taking more courses, until one day I realized I was unintentionally completing a Philosophy degree.

The Apology was always my favorite.

"But many as their falsehoods were, there was one of them which quite amazed me; - I mean when they told you to be upon your guard, and not to let yourselves be deceived by the force of my eloquence."

Just read this ICEBURN:

"Socrates belonged, in his origins, to the lowest orders: Socrates was rabble. One knows, one sees for oneself, how ugly he was. But ugliness, an objection in itself, is among Greeks almost a refutation. Was Socrates a Greek at all?"