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The Codex Clarkianus (Bodleian Library MS. E. D. Clarke 39), or Clarke Plato, is a crucial 9th-century Greek manuscript written in 895 AD in Constantinople for Arethas of Patrae by John the Calligrapher. As the oldest, most comprehensive witness for 24 of Plato's dialogues, it is central to reconstructing the text of Meno and other key works. This is the exact page where Plato's Meno begins. The top third of the page contains the conclusion of the Gorgias. You can see a decorative horizontal divider (a coronis) and a series of dots marking the end of that dialogue. Just below the divider, the title is written in red uncials: ΜΕΝΩΝ Η ΠΕΡΙ ΑΡΕΤΗΣ ΠΕΙΡΑΣΤΙΚΟΣ (Meno, or On Virtue, Tentative).

Meno

Reading companion for Plato's Meno, a Socratic dialogue exploring whether virtue can be taught, and introducing the theory of recollection as a model of knowledge.

April 10, 2026 · 105 min · Eduardo Alemán