The Garden of False Learning

Few people are familiar these days with the Table (or Tablet) of Cebes, a once renowned literary work of ancient Greece. In the past few centuries this pagan Pilgrim's Progress has only rarely appeared in print, and then usually tucked in at the end of Epictetus, to make a thin book a bit thicker. The obscurity in which it languishes does not, however, seem entirely unmerited, and to those who know and love John Bunyan's immortal work it makes dull enough reading. Yet in renaissance Europe it had an enormous popularity, being reprinted time after time. Its moralistic tone seemed in