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OverviewFamous for his visionary book, The Greeks and the Irrational (1951), E. R. Dodds was not only a remarkable classical scholar, but also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture. This volume explores his life, career, and legacy, shedding light on his less well-known work on psychic research and the reconstruction of German education after the Second World War. A group of memoirs by some of his pupils and friends offer a glimpse of the man whose work had a lasting influence on his field, and who was perhaps the last classicist to play a significant role in British literary culture. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher Stray , Christopher Pelling , Stephen HarrisonPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198777366ISBN 10: 0198777361 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 10 October 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: To order  Table of ContentsFrontmatter List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1: Christopher Stray and Christopher Pelling: Introduction: A Missing Person? 2: Christopher Stray: An Irishman Abroad 3: Renaud Gagne: The Battle for the Irrational: Greek Religion 1920 1950 4: N. J. Lowe: The Rational Irrationalist: Dodds and the Paranormal 5: Robert Parker: The Greeks and the Irrational 6: Scott Scullion: 'The road of excess': Dodds and Greek Tragedy 7: R. B. Rutherford: Dodds and Plato: The Gorgias Edition 8: Anne Sheppard: Dodds's Influence on Neoplatonic Studies 9: Teresa Morgan: Pagans and Christians: Fifty Years of Anxiety 10: John Dillon: Dodds, Plotinus, and Stephen MacKenna 11: Tom Walker: 'the lonely flight of Mind': W. B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice and the Metaphysical Poetry of Dodds's Scholarship 12: Peter McDonald: The Deaths of Tragedy: The Agamemnon of MacNeice, Dodds, and Yeats 13: David Phillips: Dodds and Educational Policy for a Defeated Germany 14: Ruth Padel, Helen Ganly, Oswyn Murray, and Donald Russell: Memories of E. R. Dodds Endmatter E. R. Dodds: A Bibliography of his Publications General Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationChristopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology at Swansea University, and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. He has held visiting positions at Wolfson College, Cambridge; the Beinecke Library, Yale University; and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He works on the history and sociology of classical teaching and learning at school and university level, and has also published on examinations, institutional slang, and textbooks. He contributed three chapters to The History of Oxford University Press (OUP, 2013), and is currently working on contributions to a forthcoming history of Trinity College, Cambridge. Christopher Pelling is Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. He occupied that chair from 2003 to 2015, and before that was McConnell Laing Fellow and Praelector in Classics at University College, Oxford, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and also served as the President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies from 2006 to 2008 and President of the International Plutarch Society from 2008 to 2011. Among his books are Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (Routledge, 2000), Plutarch and History (The Classical Press of Wales, 2002), Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times (with Maria Wyke; OUP, 2014), and Herodotus and the Question Why (University of Texas Press, 2019). Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and also visiting professor at the universities of Copenhagen and Trondheim. He has held other visiting appointments and fellowships at the universities of Bergen, Otago, Cape Town, Stanford, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. He has published extensively on Latin literature and its reception, including the following volumes: Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (OUP, 2007), Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English (edited volume; OUP, 2009), and Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays (co-edited with Amanda Wrigley; OUP, 2013). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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