Rediscovering E. R. Dodds
Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal
Edited by Christopher Stray, Christopher Pelling, and Stephen Harrison
Author Information
Christopher Stray, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology, Swansea University,Christopher Pelling, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek, University of Oxford,Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
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).
Contributors:
John Dillon, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College Dublin
Renaud Gagne, Reader in Ancient Greek Literature and Religion at the University of Cambridge
Helen Ganly, First Artist in Residence at the Ashmolean Museum
Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford
N. J. Lowe, Reader in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London
Peter McDonald, Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of Oxford
Teresa Morgan, Professor of Graeco-Roman History at the University of Oxford
Oswyn Murray, Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College at the University of Oxford
Ruth Padel, Professor of Poetry at King's College London
Robert Parker, Emeritus Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford
Christopher Pelling, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford
David Phillips, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Education at the University of Oxford
Donald Russell, Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature at the University of Oxford
R. B. Rutherford, Tutor in Greek and Latin Literature at Christ Church, Oxford
Scott Scullion, Associate Professor in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford
Anne Sheppard, Professor Emerita of Ancient Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London
Christopher Stray, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology at Swansea University
Tom Walker, Ussher Assistant Professor in Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin