Rediscovering E. R. Dodds: Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal

ISBN-13: 9780198777366 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 368 str.

Christopher Stray; Christopher Pelling; Stephen Harrison

Opis

Famous 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, including a group of memoirs by some of his pupils and friends.

Recenzje

...a book which contains not a few chapters of compelling interest...A welcome feature is a complete bibliography of Dodd's writings. The book is produced to a high standard.

O autorze

Christopher 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).