Plato

This play provoked Samuel Daniel to respond with The Tragedy of Cleopatra (published in another work in 1594), and influenced Shakespeare 's Antony and Cleopatra. Though apparently never acted, Antonius was much admired...

FLN 's works, like the volume already published of Gethin, are very largely composed of quotations. Norton addresses this issue in The Applause of Virtue, in her prefatory To the Reader, which opens...

The Destiny of Humanity discusses works by Aristotle , Plato , Kant , William Whewell , and Frederick Faber .

His long, descriptive title begins: The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung up in America; or, Severall Poems, Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight, before going to enumerate the major poems...

Despite her distaste for the survey courses and canonical English poets, AC eventually re-enrolled at the University of Toronto in 1970 , in the classics program. As an undergraduate she was particularly drawn to passionate...

Joseph Highmore painted EC in about 1738, holding a book in her hand and about to be crowned with a laurel wreath. This picture seems to be related to Samuel Johnson 's poem To Eliza...

Carter's poem To Miss Lynch claims (not for the only time) Katherine Philips as the model for her own writing. Philips's spotless verse with genuine force exprest / The brightest passion of the human breast...

Joseph Highmore 's painting of her with book and laurel wreath, and John Fayram 's painting of her as a young Minerva in stylish armour with a copy of Plato , each of them associated...

GC published her translatedSelections from the Works of Plato; on this day William Holman Hunt thanked her for his complimentary copy.

Later she became interested in Plato . In 1886 she was one of a group of women who began Greek classes at the Hampstead home of poet and scholar William Cory , her longtime friend...

Frances Cornford assisted with her husband 's translation of Plato 's Republic. He dedicated it to her, in gratitude for many hours patiently given to the amendment of this version by one whose sense...

Contemporary witnesses suggested that the couple had also worked together on Sophocles , Euripides , Plutarch , Epictetus , and Plato . According to recent critics, their sharing of their scholarly work without compromising the...

AF writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray and especially Collins , whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch . She records an...

The Conversations were not without their critics, however. Maria Weston Chapman , head of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society , criticised them for failing to address abolition explicitly. Chapman may have influenced the opinion which...

It was apparently MG who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak.