Steven Avery
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The last point on which I wish to comment is Simonides’ friendship with John Eliot Hodgkin, probably the closest friend that he had during the last years of his English stay. It was Hodgkin who supplied Simonides with practical and financial support and, above all, acted as mediator with a wide network of antiquarians and bibliophiles, amateur scholars, New Testament specialists, publishers and booksellers, and with the press. It is thanks to Hodgkin’s commitment and care that the documents today gathered in the British Library Additional 42502AB survive.
48 More details on the friendship and collaboration between Simonides and Hodgkin can be found in Canfora 2010.
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