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Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1936 to 1960, succeeding Gilbert Murray. Before this he taught at Reading and Birmingham, was active in the Association of University Teachers, or AUT (of which he became president), and brought an outsider's perspective to the comfortable and introspective world of Oxford. His famous book The Greeks and the Irrational (1951) remains one of the most distinguished and visionary works of scholarship of its time, though much less well-known is his long and influential involvement with psychic research and his work for the reconstruction of German education after the Second World War. The contributions to this volume seek to shed light on these less explored areas of Dodds' life and his significance as perhaps the last classicist to play a significant role in British literary culture, as well as examining his work across different areas of scholarship, notably Greek tragedy. A group of memoirs - one by his pupil and former literary executor, Donald Russell, and three by younger friends who knew, visited, and looked after Dodds in his last years - complement this portrait of the influential scholar and poet, offering a glimpse of the man behind the legacy.
Contents
Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
1: Christopher Stray and Christopher Pelling: Introduction: A Missing Person?
2: Christopher Stray: An Irishman Abroad
3: Renaud Gagné: 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
Index
