Britský autor, který ve svém slavném díle sleduje rozmanité aspekty řeckého sklonu k iracionalitě od Homéra až po 3. stol. po Kr., nabízí netradiční pohled na kulturu, tradičně spojovanou s vítězstvím rozumu.
Paralely křesťanského a novoplatónského myšlení. Provokující srovnání životní zkušenosti pohanů a křesťanů ve třetím stol. n. l., jak se odráží ve vztahu k hmotnému světu, světu démonů a vůči božskému. Přednášky přednesené na Queen's University v Belfastu v roce 1963.
The true story of the life of Lady C, Lady Colin Campbell, the woman who first broke the news of Princess Diana's unhappy marriage. Lady C was the jungle star of the reality TV show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and The Lady in the Castle 2016.
A new account of innovative French poet, novelist, essayist and film writer Blaise Cendrars.
some aspects of religious experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine
Interest in the world of Late Antiquity is currently undergoing a significant revival, and in this provocative book, now reissued in paperback, E. R. Dodds anticipated some of the themes now engaging scholars. There is abundant material for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, and through it Professor Dodds examines, from a sociological and psychological standpoint, the personal religious attitudes and experiences common to pagans and Christians in the period between Marcus Aurelius and Constantine. He looks first at general attitudes to the world and the human condition before turning to specific types of human experience. World-hatred and asceticism, dreams and states of possession, and pagan and Christian mysticism are all discussed. Finally Dodds considers both pagan views of Christianity and Christian views of paganism as they emerge in the literature of the time. Although primarily written for social and religious historians, this study will also appeal to all those interested in the ancient world and its thought.
In this philosophy classic, first published in 1951, E.R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology & psychology, he asks, "Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes of thought which we do not find in any society open to our direct observation?" Praised by reviewers as "an event in modern Greek scholarship" & "a book which it would be difficult to over-praise," The Greeks and the Irrational was Volume 25 of the Sather Classical Lectures series.
