Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of October 5, 1874

Overview

Richard spends the morning immersed in a book on Delphi and ancient Greece, and the children are occupied with school and kindergarten. His work proceeds steadily, and the evening reading of Anabasis brings him real pleasure and a sense of intellectual refreshment.

Content

Monday, October 5:

R. tells me in the morning about the book he is now reading, Hillmann’s The Oracle of Delphi, the origin of the name Hellas, etc.

The children in school, Fidi at the kindergarten. R. works; in the evening Anabasis, great delight in it.