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Cover; Rediscovering E.r. Dodds: Scholarship, Education, Poetry, And The Paranormal; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List Of Illustrations; List Of Contributors; 1: Introduction: A Missing Person?; 2: An Irishman Abroad; Centre And Left; Oxford; The Regius Chair Of Greek; Stages And Changes; Curricular Reform; Home And Away; Conclusion; 3: The Battle For The Irrational: Greek Religion 1920-50; Introduction; The Belle Époque History Of Religions; The Interwar Years; Nilsson And Wilamowitz; Nilsson And Otto; Three Flashpoints; Conclusion; 4: The Rational Irrationalist: Dodds And The Paranormal 5: The Greeks And The Irrational6: 'the Road Of Excess': Dodds And Greek Tragedy; 'euripides The Irrationalist' And Other Early Papers; The Bacchae Commentary; 'morals And Politics In The Oresteia'; 'on Misunderstanding The Oedipus Rex'; 7: Dodds On Plato: The Gorgias Edition; 8: Dodds's Influence On Neoplatonic Studies; Plotinus; Later Neoplatonism; Networks And Pupils; 9: Pagans And Christians: Fifty Years Of Anxiety; Introduction: 1963; Anxieties; Pagans And Christians In A New Age; Post Scriptum; 10: Dodds, Plotinus, And Stephen Mackenna 11: 'the Lonely Flight Of Mind': W.b. Yeats, Louis Macneice, And The Metaphysical Poetry Of Dodds's Scholarshipi; Ii; 12: The Deaths Of Tragedy: The Agamemnon Of Macneice, Dodds, And Yeats; 13: Dodds And Educational Policy For A Defeated Germany; Wartime Planning For The Defeat Of Germany; The Foreign Research And Press Service And The Foreign Office Research Department; Minds In The Making; Lectures On German Themes; The Aut Delegation And Its Report; Acknowledgement; 14: Memories Of E.r. Dodds; Ruth Padel; Helen Ganly; Oswyn Murray; Donald Russell E.r. Dodds: A Bibliography Of His Publications1916; 1917; 1919; 1920; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1927-8; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931; 1931-2; 1933; 1933-4; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1938-9; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1970; 1970-1; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1977; 1991; Bibliography; Index Edited By Christopher Stray, Christopher Pelling, And Stephen Harrison. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.