√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Plato | The Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides and Timaeus of Pl | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodoru... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!" | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!" | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of t... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverti... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus, below the last line of the dialogue]: "Calcutta, May 1835." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, eve... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: "I remember nothing in Greek philosophy ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scar... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous pat... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himsel... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias]: "This was my favourite dialogue at College. I do not kn... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Maraulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "You have made a blunder, and Socrates will have you in an instant." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter]. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "There you are in the Sophist's net. I think that, if I had been in the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "What a command of his temper the old fellow [Callicles] had, and what te... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Ca... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is one of the finest passages in Greek l... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias. He marks the the doctrine "that we ought to be... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: "A most solemn and noble close! Noth... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia on the last page of the Crito]: There is much that may be questioned in the reasoning of Socra... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Crito | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '... C[oleridge]was reading Plato during the mid-1790s ... ' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Plato | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... ' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Plato | Parmenides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... ' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Plato | Timaeus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Plato | The Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "At the death of Socrates - when hemlock is brought - his friends exclaimed - "The sun is n... | John Ruskin | Plato | Death of Socrates | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out eno... | Leslie Stephen | Plato | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?the snow left off a bit after lunch & we strolled out for a walk? so after pounding a mile or two out & home along sl... | Leslie Stephen | Plato | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I had Plato in my pocket & intermittently read through the Protagorus - as well as I could - which lasted me till Bri... | Leslie Stephen | Plato | Protagorus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading the Banquet of Plato. When you come here I will read it to you.' | Sir Walter Raleigh | Plato | Banquet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the terrace in the evening he would read Plato aloud, especially the "Phaedo", the final pages of which never fail... | Lord Alfred Milner | Plato | Phaedo | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made ... | James Lackington | Plato | On the immortality of the soul | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte' | George Eliot [pseud] | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet... | John Stuart Mill | Plato | Euthyphro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet... | John Stuart Mill | Plato | Theaetetus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet... | John Stuart Mill | Plato | dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Plato - Republic' | George Eliot [pseud] | Plato | Republic,The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 18th September
?Socratic Discourses? Plato & Xenophon (Everyman)
I have had the companion ?Five Dialogues... | Gerald Moore | Xenophon/Plato | Socratic Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial... | John Mitchel | Plato | Dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts referred to in the journals are not given separate en... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Symposium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | [several works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Convivium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads the Symposium and translates a part of it - he finishes Anacharsis & reads Hume's England aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Symposium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and H... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Symposium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Symposium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes correcting the Symposium and I begin to transcribe it' | Mary Shelley | Plato | Symposium | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads ye Phaedrus of Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Phaedrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G' | Mary Shelley | Plato | Symposium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary's reading list for Percy Shelley for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so data... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Apology of Socrates | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes Phaedrus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Phaedrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - Greek - With S. the first Epist. of Horace - Walk - He reads the Republic of Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...he read "360 pages of Plato (Bekker's text) in a fortnight" . . . and ten days later reported "I have finished Pla... | John Buchan | Plato | unknown | Print: Book, scholarly edition |
| 1850-1899 | '[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not spe... | George Gissing | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The spasmodic study of Plato, whose "Apologia" and "Meno" I was reading for Pass Mods., certainly did nothing to disc... | Vera Brittain | Plato | 'Apologia' and 'Meno' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have bee... | Robert Southey | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Note in the beginning of the "Phaedrus", in the speech attributed to Lysias, the ironical introduction of our Saviour... | John Ruskin | Plato | Phaedrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Plato; wrote a bit; and composed a good study for a vignette.' | John Ruskin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v... | John Ruskin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't fin... | John Ruskin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '4th Book of Plato's "Republic" at beginning, p. 420.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Begin "Republic" for conclusive work' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Go on with "Republic", Book 1.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Working on 8th and 3rd Books only, examining Plato's fearful judgement on invalids.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read to end of p. 269.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read to end of p. 270.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hur... | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today began Plato's "Laws" again at breakfast and felt a little brighter.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Terribly difficult bit of Plato' | John Ruskin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'See noble passage on the greatest [Greek word], Plato, Laws, 42.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I pretty well, and at Plato by 1/2 past six ... Plato, 117, of vain words &c., with the central laws read today, love... | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked back to Plato on weaving, Laws V, p. 151.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today I began my Plato again, properly, at page 409, after an effort failing at p. 407.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved<... | Alfred Rawlings | Plato | The Republic | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved<... | Janet Rawlings | Plato | The Republic | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved<... | Charles E. Stansfield | Plato | ‘Allegory of the Cave’ from Book 7 of The Republic | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved<... | Thomas C. Elliot | Plato | Phaedo [The account of Socrates' death] | Print: Book |