Duff Cooper Prize
1回登壇
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第22回（1977年） Winner
Eric Robertson Dodds
えりっく・ろばーとそん・どっづ
Erikku Robātoson Dozzu
別名:
E. R. Dodds
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1893-07-26 （Banbridge, County Down, Ireland）
- 死没
- 1979-04-08 （Old Marston, Oxford, England） 85歳
- 国籍
- Irish
- 言語
- English, Ancient Greek, Latin
- 宗教
- Unknown (Presbyterian background)
- 居住地歴
- Banbridge, Ireland → Dublin, Ireland → Belfast, Ireland → Oxford, England → Kilkenny, Ireland → Reading, England → Birmingham, England
経歴
- 職業
- Classical scholar, Writer, University professor
- 活動期間
- 1912年〜1979年
- 所属
- Kilkenny College, University of Reading, University of Birmingham, University of Oxford
- 所属団体
- Society for Psychical Research
- 影響を受けた人物
- J. G. Frazer, Ruth Benedict, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Erich Fromm
- 影響を与えた人物
- Louis MacNeice, A. W. H. Adkins, Ruth Padel, George Devereux
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Andrew's College, Dublin | — | Classics | — | 1903頃-1912 | Ireland |
| Campbell College | — | Classics | — | 1912頃 | Ireland |
| University College, Oxford | Literae Humaniores | Classics | 一級優等 (Literae Humaniores) | 1912-1917 | United Kingdom |
St Andrew's College, Dublin
Classics
期間:
1903頃-1912
国:
Ireland
Where his mother taught
Campbell College
Classics
期間:
1912頃
国:
Ireland
Expelled for gross, studied, and sustained insolence
University College, Oxford
Literae Humaniores
/ Classics
学位:
一級優等 (Literae Humaniores)
期間:
1912-1917
卒業年:
1917
国:
United Kingdom
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for Literature | The Greeks and the Irrational | — | — | 受賞 |
Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for Literature
1951
対象作品:
The Greeks and the Irrational
結果:
受賞
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
The Greeks and the Irrational
1951年 ClassicsCharts the influence of irrational forces in Greek culture up to the time of Plato.
IrrationalityGreek religionShame culture
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
1965年 Religious historyA study of religious life in the period between Marcus Aurelius and Constantine I.
Religious transformationAnxiety
Missing Persons
1977年 AutobiographyDodds's autobiography.
Academic lifeMysticism
全著作
- Select Passages Illustrative of Neoplatonism
- Thirty-Two Poems: With a Note on Unprofessional Poetry
- The Greeks and the Irrational
- Plato, Gorgias
- Euripides, Bacchae
- Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
- Proclus, The Elements of Theology
- The Ancient Concept of Progress and Other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief
- Missing Persons: An Autobiography
作風・主題
- 文体
- Interdisciplinary integration of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and philosophyEditing of classical texts with extensive commentaries
- 頻出モチーフ
- IrrationalityMysticismPsychical phenomena
評価・遺産
Influential classicist who revolutionized the study of irrational elements in Greek culture. Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford (1936-1960). Known also for interests in mysticism and psychical research.
大衆文化への影響
- Referenced in the song 'The History of the Concept of the Soul' by punk band The Mr. T Experience on their 1988 album Night Shift at the Thrill Factory.
引用
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I think I should have done so had I been able to support myself during the long period of probation. As it was, I had to remain a dabbler and content myself with applying a little of what I had learned to the study of Greek religion.
出典: Missing Persons (1977年)
豆知識
- Father Robert died of alcoholism when Dodds was seven.
- Moved to Dublin with his mother at age ten.
- Expelled from Campbell College for 'gross, studied, and sustained insolence'.
- Friends at Oxford included Aldous Huxley and T. S. Eliot.
- Temporarily asked to leave Oxford in 1916 due to support for the Easter Rising, but returned the next year for finals and got first-class honours.