WorkXenophon
Memorabilia [Apomnemoneumata] (c. 371 BCE)
Xenophon (c. 430–c. 354 BCE) · c. 371 BCE
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Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Manuscripts
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.
“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'.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“I read a good deal of his Socrates in the Memorabilia, Banquet & Economics.”
The same sentence also names Symposium [Banquet]; Oeconomicus [Economics]. Counted as one engagement.
Fuller, Margaret. "On Xenophon, Cyrus, and Socrates." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“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.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.