| Evidence: | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: "A most solemn and noble close! Nothing was ever written, or spoken, approaching in sober sublimity to the latter part of the Apology. It is impossible to read it without feeling one's mind elevated and strengthened." |
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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: | 1658 | |
| 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: | 439 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Oxford, 1978), 2, p. 439, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1658, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| This entry records Macaulay's later experience of reading the Gorgias, while a government official in Calcutta. |
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