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Professor Grote

Scholar referenced in discussion of Greek aesthetics.

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Also known as Grote

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Professor Grote shows up with force in The Author’s Preface. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Editor of a Moscow psychological magazine who persuaded Tolstoy to publish the work and made initial alterations.
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