| Evidence: | '...he read "360 pages of Plato (Bekker's text) in a fortnight" . . . and ten days later reported "I have finished Plato and am now labouring in Aristotle's Ethics" . . . what hideous Greek the man wrote!' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Aug 1898 and 31 Oct 1898 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Broughton | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | John Buchan |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 26 Aug 1875 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | an Oxford student at time of this reading |
| Religion: | Church of Scotland |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Plato |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Classics, Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book, scholarly edition |
| Publication details: | Bekker's text |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18702 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Janet Adam Smith | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | John Buchan: A Biography | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1965 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 70 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan: A Biography (London, 1965), p. 70, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18702, accessed: 26 April 2024 | |
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