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
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).
Rediscovering E.R. Dodds is an invitation to consider not only
Dodds the enshrined scholar, but also Dodds the human, himself once
a nobody, who lived in trying times and had to overcome many
hurdles. These hurdles and his beginner's luck, panache and
intellectual strategies are retraced in Stray and Pelling's first
chapter.
*FRANCESCA SPIEGEL, The Classical Review*
This collection of essays deserves plaudits for latitude befitting
the catholicity of E.R. Dodd's concerns and achievements ... The
essays in Rediscovering Dodds, exploring and celebrating his work,
are a necessary reminder of this most multi-faceted of
classicists.
*Sean Sheehan, Classics Ireland*
The essays in Rediscovering Dodds, exploring and celebrating his
work, are a necessary reminder of this most multi-faceted of
classicists.
*Sean Sheehan, Classics Ireland*
E. R. Dodds (1893-1979) is one of the most interesting and unusual
figures of twentieth-century classical scholarship... As Stray and
Pelling explain in the introduction, this volume aims both to
revisit Dodds's scholarship and to show some of the ways in which
the seemingly disparate, contradictory elements of his life come
together into a more or less coherent unity... The volume succeeds
admirably in fulfilling these two objectives.
*Alexandre Johnston, University College, Oxford, Bryn Mawr
Classical Review *
[The chapters] provide a wonderful contextualization, a primer for
understanding Dodds, his lineage, context of his person, works and
writings, and unexpected characteristics and expertise. Overarching
takeaways from Dodds' work was to other timeframes, his
contemporary world, our own world and his impact on psychology,
anthropology, telepathy, tragedy, politics, the mystical and
metaphysical. E.R. Dodds was a person of high-level
complexities.
*George P. Carras, Washington and Lee University, Religious Studies
Review*
This book should be on the shelf of everyone who is interested in
the various facets of Dodds' career. His bibliography, stretching
from 1916 unto 1977, shows him to have been a very concentrated and
busy man. All his reviews were perceptive, despite their narrow
foci. Humane scholar that he was, E.R. Dodds will be introduced to
a new generation of specialist readers in these pages, and he is
well worth remembering.
*Darrell Sutton, The Quarterly Review*
...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.
*Colin Leach, Classics For All*
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