WorkPlato
Euthyphro (c. 399-395 BCE)
Plato (c. 428 BCE–c. 348 BCE) · c. 399-395 BCE
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Documented 1833
Letters
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I part with Plato with regret... Eutyphron is excellent... declares, "qu'il aimerait incomparablement mieux des principes fixes et inebranlables a l'habilite de Dedale avec les tresors de Tantale.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 3 June 1833
Explicit 'I part with Plato with regret... Eutyphron is excellent' is a first-person reading completion statement.
“June 3, 1833.—I part with Plato with regret...Eutyphron is excellent...'Crito' I have only read once...The 'Apology' I deem only remarkable...I was much affected by Phaedo”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · June 3, 1833
Dated journal entry with explicit reading statements: 'I have only read once' and detailed reactions to each Plato dialogue.
“I part with Plato with regret: I could have wished to 'enchant myself' as Socrates would say with him some days longer.- Eutyphron is excellent.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
“Eutyphron is excellent. 'T is the best specimen I have ever seen of that mode of convincing.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.