Which Greek and Latin authors did John Stuart Mill study as a child?

John Stuart Mill’s education was exceptionally rigorous and directed by his father, James Mill. By the age of eight, he had already read several works in the original Greek, including:

• Aesop’s Fables
• Xenophon’s Anabasis
• The complete works of Herodotus

Additionally, he was acquainted with the writings of the satirist Lucian, the philosopher Diogenes Laërtius, the theorist Isocrates, and six dialogues of Plato.

Starting at age eight, Mill began studying Latin. As he progressed, he read all the Latin and Greek authors typically covered in schools and universities of the time. By age 10, he could read Plato and the orator Demosthenes with ease, and by age 12, he was reading the logical treatises of Aristotle in the original Greek.1