Reading Plato's Dialogues: Gorgias

Bro, what you even saying? Do you know what you're talking about?

Well, here's a, famous set of dialogues. If you're looking to get into ancient literature at all and looking to read some of Plato's dialogues, this is  Gorgias, in which Socrates, , Plato's mentor, sits at a dinner party in Athens talking to a bunch of intellects of the time. They're trying to get at the main point of what rhetoric was.

Is it oratory? That is, being able to speak well. Or is it sophistry? Trying to be able to convince people that you know what you're talking about, when really you might not.

Well, if there's a dinner guest, you're kind of like, oh, who invited this guy?

It's Socrates, because he takes on the task and says, basically, he's the only one who knows true rhetoric in Athens. And so on goes the debate.

So if you're looking to get into the ancient classics, ancient Greek, Plato's Gorgias is the one to start with.

I know it is a bit graduate reading, but you can also find versions with the translations available as well. Have you ever read it? Would you want to read it? Let me know. Hope you're well.