Evidence: | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Callicles says. He is wrong in not perceiving that the real happiness, not only of the weak many, but of the able few, is promoted by virtue. [...] When I read this dialogue as a lad at college, I wrote a trifling piece for Knight's Magazine, in which some Athenian characters were introduced, I made this Callicles the villain of the drama. I now see that he was merely a fair specimen of the public men of Athens in that age. Although his principles were those of aspiring and voluptuous men in unquiet times, his feelings seem to have been friendly and kind." |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 May 1837 and 31 Dec 1839 | ||||||||||
Country: | India | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Calcutta | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Thomas Babington Macaulay |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 25 Oct 1800 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Historian and critic |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | India |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Plato |
Title: | Gorgias |
Genre: | Classics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | The edition published in Frankfort, 1602, with a parallel Latin translation by Marsilius Ficinus |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 1632 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Babington Macaulay | |
Editor: | George Otto Trevelyan | |
Title: | The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 437 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Oxford, 1978), 2, p. 437, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1632, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
This entry records Macaulay's later experience of reading the Gorgias, while a government official in Calcutta. Note the reference to his previously reading this text at College. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)