This provocative collection of essays written by the influential Greek scholar E. R. Dodds between 1929 and 1971. represents the wide range of his literary and philosophical interests. Insightful and learned, the essays combine profound scholarship with the lucid humanity of a teacher awareof the special value of Greek studies in the modern world.
CONTENTS
I. The Ancient Concept of Progress
II. The Prometheus Vinctus and the Progress of Scholarship
III. Morals and Politics in the Oresteia
IV. On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex
V. Euripides the Irrationalist
VI. The Sophistic Movement and the Failure of Greek Liberalism
VII. Plato and the Irrational
VIII. Tradition and Personal Achievement in the Philosophy of Plotinus
IX. The Religion of the Ordinary Man in Classical Greece
Description:
This provocative collection of essays written by the influential Greek scholar E. R. Dodds between 1929 and 1971. represents the wide range of his literary and philosophical interests. Insightful and learned, the essays combine profound scholarship with the lucid humanity of a teacher awareof the special value of Greek studies in the modern world.
CONTENTS
I. The Ancient Concept of Progress
II. The Prometheus Vinctus and the Progress of Scholarship
III. Morals and Politics in the Oresteia
IV. On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex
V. Euripides the Irrationalist
VI. The Sophistic Movement and the Failure of Greek Liberalism
VII. Plato and the Irrational
VIII. Tradition and Personal Achievement in the Philosophy of Plotinus
IX. The Religion of the Ordinary Man in Classical Greece
X. Supernormal Phenomena in Classical Antiquity