Evidence: | 'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Ceropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1809 and 31 Dec 1814 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | John Stuart Mill |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 20 May 1806 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Administrator in the East India Company (joins the company as a clerk in 1823, retires as chief of his office and Examiner of India Correspondence in |
Religion: | Atheist |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Herodotus |
Title: | Histories |
Genre: | Classics, History |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8938 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | John Stuart Mill | |
Editor: | Jack Stillinger | |
Title: | Autobiography | |
Place of Publication: | Boston | |
Date of Publication: | 1969 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 5 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | John Stuart Mill, Jack Stillinger (ed.), Autobiography (Boston, 1969), p. 5, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8938, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Mill was translating the text under his father?s guidance, as part of his education in the Ancient Greek language. |
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