The Ancient Concept of Progress and other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief. - Dodds, E.R.
KORTE INHOUD
'This collection brings together ten essays all originally delivered as lectures at various points in a period of over forty years. (...) Scholars will be glad to have so many notable articles in a single volume, especially the two surveys of 'concepts which have shifted their ground and their meaning': the 1969 Frazer Lecture on 'The Ancient Concept of Progress' and 'Supernormal Phenomena in Classical antiquity', a long account of the evidence handled with masterly objectivity. (...) Perhaps the most striking feature of all is not the quality of the author's scholarship, which one has learnt to take for granted, nor his dry wit, but his continuing awareness (...) of contemporary trends and their effect on the study of antiquity. (...) The old Chinese curse, 'May you live in interesting times!'(says Dodds in 'The Prometheus Vinctus and the the Progress of Scholarship'-ND) has descended on us with a vengeance', is Dodds's wry comment in thar first post-war year (1946). 'It is inevitable that we should ask our...
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1974Uitgever: Clarendon Press, Oxford218 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0198143702ISBN-13: 9780198143703Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Oxford, 1973. VI,218p. Original blue cloth with dust wrps. Signature on free endpaper. Dust wrps to spine as well as small part of the back bit discoloured. Still a nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: DODDS, E.R.,] [Uitgever: Clarendon Press] [Jaar: 1973] [Titel: The Ancient Concept of Progress and other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief.]
