Warm thanks to my friends Bruno Cohen and Lili Conklin-Cohen and their two sons, Jay and Seth, for welcoming me into their home while I searched for Socrates' track. That late afternoon when snow began to fall and we sat and talked, and drank whisky and ate walnuts, is one of many sustaining memories.

Thanks to Barnard College and Columbia University for taking the prodigal
daughter back so I could finish my degree. I am particularly grateful to my advisor,
Professor Nancy Worman, Classics Department Chair, Professor Helen Foley, and Dean Aaron Schneider. If there are any errors in CONTEMPLATING SOCRATES
they are mine.

Delighted thanks to Jeannette Lyons for her contemplative title, discovered on a walk through the Arboretum, and to my niece Jen McNulty and friend
Valerie Ivey for reading an early draft and making brilliant suggestions.

Sweet thanks to my aunts Rita, Florence, Mary, and Marian, to my niece
Marisa McNulty, and to my sister Jana for their confidence in me.

Grateful thanks to my stalwart friends, Lena Lencek, Suzanne and Richard Kurtz, Jill Kirk and Dan Nottage, Elaine Norton Jackson, Patricia Gration,
Julia and Forster Freeman, Jeff and Sarah Creswell, Dick and Jane Clippinger, and John and Jeanette Benson for their insight and support.

Benedictions to my companions in Cornerstone, Gina Bradford, Bill Gillanders, Patty Gration, Greg Harris, Elaine Stewart, Greg Hetrick, and Nick Knutzen, for their weekly dinners and thoughtful words.

Happy thanks to David Abbott whose inspiration and laughter and good help
gave life to SOCRATES online.

©2006 CATHERINE GLASS