| Evidence: | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; as much of Hesiod as in the "Eton Selecta"; the first, seventh, and eighth "Idylls" of Theocritus, and his Epithalamium of Helen"; all of Sappho, Theognis, Callistratus, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus as are in that collectiuon - (they are most of them scraps); ...' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Oct 1800 and 31 Oct 1801 | ||||||||||
| Country: | India | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Mountstuart Elphinstone |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 6 Oct 1779 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | East India Company administrator |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | India |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | unknown |
| Title: | Eton Selecta |
| Genre: | Classics, Miscellany / Anthology |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 14253 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | James Sutherland Cotton | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Mountstuart Elphinstone | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1892 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 27 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | James Sutherland Cotton, Mountstuart Elphinstone (Oxford, 1892), p. 27, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14253, accessed: 19 June 2013 | |
| Title is possibly "Poetae graeci: sive selecta ex Homeri Odysss. Hesiodo, Theocrito ...In usum regiae Scholae Etonensis". One of a group of some 70 works partly read while journeying, with Edward Strachey, between a post in Benares and his next posting in Poona. |
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