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E.R. Dodds' "The Greeks and the Irrational" is based a series of lectures the author gave at Berkeley in 1949 and by his admission "reproduced here substantially as they were composed." I have a fervent wish other scholars in the last half-century have followed up on his work, although as of this writing I'm unaware of the extent to which they've done so. Through a style and format that could use a little polish, Mr. Dodds annihilates one idea (the ancient Greeks were primarily philosophical purveyors of reason) and strongly suggests another (later-arriving Christianity borrowed liberally from the Greek mystical tradition). Both of these views, I suspect, stunned even receptive academic listeners at this early date. Consider the origins of gods as agents of justice--an idea strongly favored in Judaism (in a monotheistic setting, and later extended by Christians). Dodds clearly shows the Greeks far ahead with their jealous deities, but adds "religion and morals were not initially interdependent, in Greece or elsewhere." Or try on the notion that "in the Archaic Age the mills of God ground so slowly ... in order to sustain the belief that they moved at all, *it was necessary to get r

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Author

Eric Roberston Dodds

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

1962

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585160252

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Psychology, Fiction, Religion

Rating

4.22 / 5 (387 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14