Evidence: | 'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaetetus inclusive: which last dialogue, I venture to think, would have been better omitted, as it was totally impossible I should understand it.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1813 and 31 Dec 1813 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: Presumably at James Mill?s house in Newington Green, London | ||||||||||
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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: | Plato |
Title: | Theaetetus |
Genre: | Classics, Philosophy |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8946 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | John Stuart Mill | |
Editor: | Jack Stillinger | |
Title: | Autobiography | |
Place of Publication: | Boston | |
Date of Publication: | 1969 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 5-6 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | John Stuart Mill, Jack Stillinger (ed.), Autobiography (Boston, 1969), p. 5-6, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8946, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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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