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The Greeks And The Irrational

The Greeks And The Irrational

E. R. Dodds challenges the traditional view of Greek culture as a victory of reason in this philosophical classic, first published in 1951. 

“Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from ‘primitive’ forms of mind which we do not find in any society exposed to our direct observation?”

 Dodds argues, using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology.

 The Greeks and the Irrational was Volume 25 of the Sather Classical Lectures series, and it was hailed as “an event in modern Greek research” and “a book that it would be difficult to over-praise.”