The One Motto - You Can't Always Get What You Need

Alex Castellanos: I've often heard tell that platonic dialogues can be paired or clustered based on theme together, and certain interlocutors in this text appear in other of Plato's dialogues. Can you read the Republic and walk away with a kind of understanding of what Plato was about where he must, out of necessityBe paired, or leavened with other dialogues to make heads or tails of it in a comprehensive way?Castellanos: The first thought that comes to mind is that you first, yes, I think you can study just the Republic. But if you haven't picked up the Republic, by the way, we haven't even mentioned what translation