Evidence: | Copious notes and dates of reading, incl. Dec 1918, Sept 1921. Trevelyan transcribes the dates when Macaulay also read Demosthenes (1836, 1837). Several references to the difficulty of the text, e.g.: "All the same, Demosthenes is tough reading: far more difficult to me than Herodotus and Plato, or the ordinary narrative of Thucydides, let alone Xenophon." On p.1: "The Olynthiacs were the first Demosthenes I read, in prefect room at Harrow, about 1853." |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1918 and 1 1921 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | George Otto Trevelyan |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 20 Jul 1838 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | Historian and statesman |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Demosthenes |
Title: | Orationes publicae; ed. by G.H. Heslop ... The Olynthiacs |
Genre: | Classics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | London: Longmans, Green, 1912 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 22598 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | MS notes in book cited below, |
Citation: | MS notes in book cited below, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22598, accessed: 01 June 2023 |
Probably read at Wallington. I have not transcribed all the notes. |
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