E R Dodds
Books by E R Dodds
The Greeks and the Irrational
by E R Dodds
The Greeks and the Irrational still has an ongoing influence on me, particularly in my study of Yeats, Hart Crane and other great poets
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
by E R Dodds
‘In an Age of Anxiety’ is borrowed from Dodd’s great friend W H Auden, who had written a poem with that name. Dodds was a man of immense literary sensitivity who writes more beautifully in a more lucid prose than any other academic that I have come across. And he was interested in applying psychological insights to figures known to us from texts in the past.
Interviews where books by E R Dodds were recommended
The best books on Religious and Social History in the Ancient World, recommended by Robin Lane Fox
Cultural and philosophical changes that occurred in late antiquity are essential to our understanding of the world today, but few us know much about that period. Historian Robin Lane Fox recommends the best books to read to get a good sense of late antiquity.
Harold Bloom recommends the best of Literary Criticism
The distinguished literary critic Harold Bloom discusses the five works of literary scholarship that have most influenced him.
The best books on Ancient History in Modern Life, recommended by Mary Beard
Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, talks us through the books that have had the deepest impact on her thinking about the ancient world and explains why studying Classics is absolutely relevant to modern life.
Ursula Coope on Neoplatonism, Five Books interview