E R Dodds
Biographic Data
| ID | 209013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E R Dodds |
| GIVEN NAMES | E R |
| FAMILY NAME | Dodds |
| SIGNATURE | DODDS E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Church of Christ |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1922 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Greeks and the Irrational
Appendix 2
Appendix 1
Proclus
Proclus' Elements of Theology is a concise summa of the Neoplatonic system in its fully developed form; and for the student of late Greek thought second in importance only to the Enneads of Plotinus. Professor Dodds has provided a critical text based on a personal examination of some forty manuscripts, together with an English translation and a philosophical and linguistic commentary. First published in 1933, this second edition includes an Appen…
The ancient concept of progress
The Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
Interest in the world of Late Antiquity is currently undergoing a significant revival, and in this provocative book, now reissued in paperback, E. R. Dodds anticipated some of the themes now engaging scholars. There is abundant material for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, and through it Professor Dodds examines, from a sociological and psychological standpoint, the personal religious attitudes and experiences common to pagans…
Arthur Darby Nock
Arthur Nock was one of those scholars who choose their field of research early and remain faithful to it throughout their lives, steadily broadening as well as deepening their knowledge, but always relating their studies, implicitly if not directly, to the same central group of major historical problems. Nock's choice was dictated by his deeply religious temperament and his endless curiosity about religious behaviour : the study of emergent Chris…
New Light on the “Chaldaean Oracles”
Hans Lewy's posthumous book, the fruit of many years' devoted study, should arouse fresh interest in one of the most tantalizingly obscure of ancient Greek texts. The Chaldaean Oracles were a divine revelation in bad hexameter verse; its authors were believed to be gods (speaking through the lips of entranced mediums?), but it was given to the world, as Lobeck guessed and Bidez finally proved, by one “Julianus the theurgist,” who lived under Marc…
Plato
Plato
Morals and Politics in the ‘Oresteia’
When Aeschylus wrote, no distinction between morals and politics had yet been drawn. But in our day the moral and the political element in the Oresteia have usually been examined separately. Thus, for example, Professor Dover, in his thoughtful paper on ‘The Political Aspect of the Eumenides’ , makes no attempt to connect this aspect with the moral issues raised in the earlier part of the trilogy. And Sir Richard Livingstone, in his paper on ‘The…
Tradition and Personal Achievement in the Philosophy of Plotinus
The collected philosophical essays of Plotinus—to which we still unfortunately give the senseless and unplotinian title Enneads —constitute a nodal point in the evolution of Western ideas. In this book converge almost all the main currents of thought that come down from 800 years of Greek speculation; out of it there issues a new current, destined to fertilize minds as different as those of Augustine and Boethius, Dante and Meister Eckhart, Coler…
Plato, Gorgias. A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary
Plato
The Nationality of Antiphon the Sophist
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The Greeks and the Irrational
Notes on the Oresteia
This line has been thought corrupt by most editors, though there is no agreement on the remedy. The Herald is plainly asking why the people at home are despondent: picks up the Chorus's phrase . But as Wilamowitz says, ‘ de populo aut senatu Argivorum accipi non potest’: it can only mean the army at Troy, as in lines 538 and 545. The usual inference is that arparw is corrupt
The Alcidamas-Papyrus Again
Mr. G. S. Kirk's interesting and illuminating treatment of this curious fragment in CQ,. xliv (1950), pp. 149–57, prompts me to offer some further conjectures (i) on the reading and interpretation of lines 15–23, (ii) on the character of the fragment as a whole. I am indebted for valuable help both to Mr. Kirk himself and to Mr. C. H. Roberts
IV. Dream-Pattern and Culture-Pattern
Theurgy and its Relationship to Neoplatonism
The last half-century has seen a remarkable advance in our knowledge of the magical beliefs and practices of later antiquity. But in comparison with this general progress the special branch of magic known as theurgy has been relatively neglected and is still imperfectly understood. The first step towards understanding it was taken more than fifty years ago by Wilhelm Kroll, when he collected and discussed the fragments of the Chaldaean Oracles . …
Plato and the Irrational
The purpose of this paper is to enquire into Plato's attitude towards a group of related problems which at the present time have assumed an unusual importance. By ‘the irrational’ I mean that surd element in human experience, both in our experience of ourselves and in our experience of the world about us, which has exercised so powerful—and as some of us think, so perilous—a fascination on the philosophers, artists, and men of letters of our own …
The ancient concept of progress
Notes on the Oresteia
This line has been thought corrupt by most editors, though there is no agreement on the remedy. The Herald is plainly asking why the people at home are despondent: picks up the Chorus's phrase . But as Wilamowitz says, ‘ de populo aut senatu Argivorum accipi non potest’: it can only mean the army at Troy, as in lines 538 and 545. The usual inference is that arparw is corrupt
The Parmenides of Plato and the Origin of the Neoplatonic ‘One’
The last phase of Greek philosophy has until recently been less intelligently studied than any other, and in our understanding of its development there are still lamentable lacunae. Three errors in particular have in the past prevented a proper appreciation of Plotinus' place in the history of philosophy. The first was the failure to distinguish Neoplatonism from Platonism: this vitiates the work of many early exponents from Ficinus down to Kirch…
Maenadism in the Bacchae
“In art, as well as in poetry, the representation of these wild states of enthusiasm was apparently due to the imagination alone, for in prose literature we have very little evidence, in historic times, of women actually holding revels in the open air. Such a practice would have been alien to the spirit of seclusion which pervaded the life of womankind in Greece. ... The festivals of the Thyiads were mainly confined to Parnassus.” Thus Sandys in …
Theurgy and its Relationship to Neoplatonism
The last half-century has seen a remarkable advance in our knowledge of the magical beliefs and practices of later antiquity. But in comparison with this general progress the special branch of magic known as theurgy has been relatively neglected and is still imperfectly understood. The first step towards understanding it was taken more than fifty years ago by Wilhelm Kroll, when he collected and discussed the fragments of the Chaldaean Oracles . …
Plotiniana
As the later phases of Greek thought are at last beginning to receive in England and Ireland the attention they merit, it is hoped that the following critical notes on Plotinus may be of interest to a few readers. Some involve points of doctrine; others are intended to illustrate certain shortcomings of the German school, who have hitherto been practically the sole workers in the textual field
The Parmenides of Plato and the Origin of the Neoplatonic ‘One’
The last phase of Greek philosophy has until recently been less intelligently studied than any other, and in our understanding of its development there are still lamentable lacunae. Three errors in particular have in the past prevented a proper appreciation of Plotinus' place in the history of philosophy. The first was the failure to distinguish Neoplatonism from Platonism: this vitiates the work of many early exponents from Ficinus down to Kirch…
Notes on the ΠÈΡΙ ΨϮХΗΣ ΑΠΟΡΙΑΙ of Plotinus ( Ennead IV. III–IV)
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Proclus, the Elements of Theology, a Revised Text with Translation, Introduction and Commentary
Humanism and Technique in Greek Studies
Four Notes on the Choephori
The attempts of Verrall and Tucker to discover, without resorting to emendation, a construction for the participles in v. 285 have convinced only their authors. All other recent scholars either postulate a lacuna before this line or transpose it to follow v. 288, if they do not delete it altogether. All alike assume that both participles describe the behaviour of the victim of the underworld powers
Maenadism in the Bacchae
“In art, as well as in poetry, the representation of these wild states of enthusiasm was apparently due to the imagination alone, for in prose literature we have very little evidence, in historic times, of women actually holding revels in the open air. Such a practice would have been alien to the spirit of seclusion which pervaded the life of womankind in Greece. ... The festivals of the Thyiads were mainly confined to Parnassus.” Thus Sandys in …
Plato and the Irrational
The purpose of this paper is to enquire into Plato's attitude towards a group of related problems which at the present time have assumed an unusual importance. By ‘the irrational’ I mean that surd element in human experience, both in our experience of ourselves and in our experience of the world about us, which has exercised so powerful—and as some of us think, so perilous—a fascination on the philosophers, artists, and men of letters of our own …
Theurgy and its Relationship to Neoplatonism
The last half-century has seen a remarkable advance in our knowledge of the magical beliefs and practices of later antiquity. But in comparison with this general progress the special branch of magic known as theurgy has been relatively neglected and is still imperfectly understood. The first step towards understanding it was taken more than fifty years ago by Wilhelm Kroll, when he collected and discussed the fragments of the Chaldaean Oracles . …
IV. Dream-Pattern and Culture-Pattern
The Alcidamas-Papyrus Again
Mr. G. S. Kirk's interesting and illuminating treatment of this curious fragment in CQ,. xliv (1950), pp. 149–57, prompts me to offer some further conjectures (i) on the reading and interpretation of lines 15–23, (ii) on the character of the fragment as a whole. I am indebted for valuable help both to Mr. Kirk himself and to Mr. C. H. Roberts
Notes on the Oresteia
This line has been thought corrupt by most editors, though there is no agreement on the remedy. The Herald is plainly asking why the people at home are despondent: picks up the Chorus's phrase . But as Wilamowitz says, ‘ de populo aut senatu Argivorum accipi non potest’: it can only mean the army at Troy, as in lines 538 and 545. The usual inference is that arparw is corrupt
The Nationality of Antiphon the Sophist
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Greeks and the Irrational
Plato
Morals and Politics in the ‘Oresteia’
When Aeschylus wrote, no distinction between morals and politics had yet been drawn. But in our day the moral and the political element in the Oresteia have usually been examined separately. Thus, for example, Professor Dover, in his thoughtful paper on ‘The Political Aspect of the Eumenides’ , makes no attempt to connect this aspect with the moral issues raised in the earlier part of the trilogy. And Sir Richard Livingstone, in his paper on ‘The…
Tradition and Personal Achievement in the Philosophy of Plotinus
The collected philosophical essays of Plotinus—to which we still unfortunately give the senseless and unplotinian title Enneads —constitute a nodal point in the evolution of Western ideas. In this book converge almost all the main currents of thought that come down from 800 years of Greek speculation; out of it there issues a new current, destined to fertilize minds as different as those of Augustine and Boethius, Dante and Meister Eckhart, Coler…
Plato, Gorgias. A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary
New Light on the “Chaldaean Oracles”
Hans Lewy's posthumous book, the fruit of many years' devoted study, should arouse fresh interest in one of the most tantalizingly obscure of ancient Greek texts. The Chaldaean Oracles were a divine revelation in bad hexameter verse; its authors were believed to be gods (speaking through the lips of entranced mediums?), but it was given to the world, as Lobeck guessed and Bidez finally proved, by one “Julianus the theurgist,” who lived under Marc…
Plato
Plato
Arthur Darby Nock
Arthur Nock was one of those scholars who choose their field of research early and remain faithful to it throughout their lives, steadily broadening as well as deepening their knowledge, but always relating their studies, implicitly if not directly, to the same central group of major historical problems. Nock's choice was dictated by his deeply religious temperament and his endless curiosity about religious behaviour : the study of emergent Chris…
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
Interest in the world of Late Antiquity is currently undergoing a significant revival, and in this provocative book, now reissued in paperback, E. R. Dodds anticipated some of the themes now engaging scholars. There is abundant material for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, and through it Professor Dodds examines, from a sociological and psychological standpoint, the personal religious attitudes and experiences common to pagans…
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
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