WorkXenophon

Apology, Memorabilia, and Symposium

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Xenophon (c. 430–c. 354 BCE)

InferredFuller confirms active reading of Xenophon's Socratic writings during her time in Canton, engaging in substantive comparison between Xenophon's Socrates and Plato's Socrates, contrasting both with Jesus. She mentions intending to send notes on Xenophon to Channing, further attesting to her close analytical reading.

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Documented 1842

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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.

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“In my quiet retreat I read Xenophon, and became more acquainted with his Socrates.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 17 June [1842]
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re810 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-07b, line 18798; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit 'In my quiet retreat I read Xenophon'.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to William H. Channing

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“In my quiet retreat I read Xenophon, and became more acquainted with his Socrates. I had before known only the Socrates of Plato, one much more to my mind.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller confirms active reading of Xenophon's Socratic writings during her time in Canton, engaging in substantive comparison between Xenophon's Socrates and Plato's Socrates, contrasting both with Jesus. She mentions intending to send notes on Xenophon to Channing, further attesting to her close analytical reading.