Background
Michael Stokes was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England.
Michael Stokes was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England.
Stokes was educated at the Dragon School (Oxford), Eton College, and Street John"s College, Cambridge, where he gained a double first degree in classics.
The family moved to Oxford in 1939. Michael Stokes taught for a year at Balliol College, Oxford. He was then appointed lecturer in Greek at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) in 1956.
He moved to Cornell University to become an associate professor in the United States of America in 1970.
His book One and Many in Presocratic Philosophy was published in 1971. In 1974 he returned to the United Kingdom to take up a position as Professor of Greek at Durham University.
His book Plato"s Socratic Conversations appeared in 1986. He retired in 1993 to become an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London.
