Francis M. CORNFORD Francis Macdonald Cornford was born on February 27, 1874 in Sussex, England. During his youth he distinguished himself as a promising student of Latin and Greek. After his graduation he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1894 to pursue a course of classical studies. Then he became the pupil of Henry Jackson, and they worked together. This has paved the way to his success in later years. “Cornford was a revolutionary scholar who reinterpreted the origins of Western thought and a masterful translator of and commentator on the later dialogues of Plato. He was also a recognized authority on Greek science, an innovator in the methodology of the…