Author:Eric Robertson Dodds

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Eric Robertson Dodds
(1893–1979)

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Irish classical scholar. Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford from 1936 to 1960.

Works

Select Passages Illustrating Neoplatonism (London: S. P. C. K., 1924) (Texts for Students, 36) IA
Thirty-Two Poems: With a Note on Unprofessional Poetry (London: Constable, 1929)
Humanism and Technique in Greek Studies: A Lecture (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936)
Journal and Letters of Stephen MacKenna edited with a memoir by E. R. Dodds, (London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1936)
Minds in the Making (London: Macmillan & Co., 1941) (Macmillan War Pamphlets, 14)
The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951) (Sather Classical Lectures, 25)
Plato, Gorgias, with "revised text with introduction and commentary, by E. R. Dodds". (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959)
Euripides, Bacchae, 2nd edition, "edited with introduction and commentary, by E. R. Dodds". (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960)
Morals and Politics in the Oresteia (Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 1960)
Classical Teaching in an Altered Climate (London: John Murray, 1964)
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety (Cambridge University Press, 1965) (The Wiles Lectures Given at the Queen's University, Belfast, 1963)
Proclus, The Elements of Theology, "a revised text with translation, by E. R. Dodds". (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964)
The Ancient Concept of Progress and Other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973)
Missing Persons: An Autobiography (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977)

Articles

"Why I Do Not Believe in Survival" (London: Society for Psychical Research, 1934) (Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, part 135, pp. 147–172)
"Maenadism in the Bacchae". Harvard Theological Review, 1940, 33, 115–76
"Three notes on the Medea" (Humanitas, 1952, 4, 13–18)
"Gilbert Murray" (Gnomon, 1957, 29, 476–9)
"On misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex" (Greece and Rome, 1966, 13, 37–49)
"Supernormal Phenomena in Classical Antiquity" (London: Society for Psychical Research, 1971) (Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. 55, p. 203)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1979, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 45 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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