| 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 | ||||||||||
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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) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Xenophon |
| Title: | Cyropaedia |
| Genre: | Classics, History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 8942 | |
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| 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=8942, accessed: 31 May 2023 | |
| Mill was translating the text under his father?s guidance, as part of his education in the Ancient Greek language. He reveals on p.6 that, since there were no available dictionaries he could use, he had to interrupt his father?s work (on his History of India) to ask him for the meaning of all words unfamiliar to him at the time. |
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