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Article: I.F. Stone and the Ancient Mystery;Offering a New Perspective On the Death of Socrates
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- March 10, 1988
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The second floor of I.F. Stone's home is lined with the wisdom
of the ancients. "This is my Greek and Latin library," he says,
rising from behind a desk brimming with paperbacks, magazines and
newspaper clippings. "I've got a thousand volumes."
"It's a good working library because I have all the Greek poets,
all of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes." He speaks
quickly as though he might run out of time before he runs out of
names. "I have a Greek anthology, Sappho, Homer and all the
philosophers and all the Latin poets and all the Roman historians and
I have a lot of basic histories and commentaries."
On tiptoe, he pulls a weighty tome from the top shelf, and
lowers it onto ...