Eric Robertson Dodds (26 July 1893 - 8 April 1973) was a British classical scholar. July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 158 days remaining. ... 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Classics, particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. ...

Dodds was born in Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, the son of schoolteachers. His father Robert was from a Presbyterian family, and died of alcoholism when Dodds was seven. His mother Anne was of Anglo-Irish ancestry. When Dodds was ten, he moved with his mother to Dublin, and he was educated at St Andrew's College (where his mother taught) and at Campbell College in Belfast. He was expelled from the latter for "gross, studied and sustained insolence". Arms of Banbridge Banbridge (Droichead na Banna in Irish) is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. ... County Down, (An Dún in Irish) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, covering an area of 2,448 km² (945 square miles). ... Dieu et mon droit (Royal motto) (French for God and my right)4 Northern Irelands location within the UK Official languages none6 Main languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Hain MP Area  - Total Ranked... Presbyterianism is part of the Reformed churches family of denominations of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin which traces its institutional roots to the Scottish Reformation, especially as led by John Knox. ... Alcoholism (rel. ... The term Anglo-Irish means English-Irish. ... Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Irelands east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region. ... St Andrews College, Blackrock is a Presbyterian international secondary school in County Dublin, Ireland. ... Campbell College is a public school (that is, an independent secondary school that charges tuition) in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in legal terminology it is a voluntary grammar school and educates boys from ages 11_18. ... Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is a city in the United Kingdom. ...

In 1912 Dodds won a scholarship at University College, Oxford to read classics. Friends at Oxford included Aldous Huxley and T.S. Eliot. In 1916 he was asked to leave Oxford due to his support for the Easter Rising, but he returned the following year to take examinations, and was awarded a first class degree. 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... University College (in full, the College of the Great Hall of the University, commonly known as University College in the University of Oxford, usually known by its derivative, Univ), is a contender for the claim to be the oldest of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the... Classics, particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. ... Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was a British writer who emigrated to the United States. ... Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 - The Royal Army Medical Corps first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... Easter Proclamation, read by Pádraig Pearse outside the GPO at the start of the Easter Rising, 1916. ...

After graduation, Dodds returned to Dublin and met W.B. Yeats and George Russell. In 1919 he was appointed as a lecturer in classics at the University of Reading, and in 1923 he married a lecturer in English, Annie Edwards Powell (1886-1973). A 1907 engraving of Yeats. ... George Allen Russell (born June 23, 1923) is an American jazz composer and theorist. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The University of Reading (pronounced Redding) is a university in the English town of Reading. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

In 1924 Dodds was appointed Professor of Greek at the University of Birmingham, and came to know W.H.Auden (whose father was a colleague). Dodds was also responsible for Louis MacNeice's appointment as a lecturer at Birmingham in 1930. He assisted MacNeice with his translation of Aeschylus, and became the poet's literary executor. Dodds published one volume of poems himself, in 1929. 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The University of Birmingham is an English university in the city of Birmingham. ... Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Wystan Hugh Auden (February 21, 1907–September 29, 1973) was an English poet. ... Frederick Louis MacNeice (September 12, 1907 – September 3, 1963) was a British and Irish poet and playwright. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Aeschylus This article is about the ancient Greek playwright. ... A literary executor is a person with decision-making power in respect of the literary estate of an author who has died. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1936, Dodds became Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford, succeeding Gilbert Murray. Murray had chosen Dodds himself, and it was not a popular appointment - he was a compromise, chosen instead of two academics already at the University. His lack of service in the First World War (he had worked briefly in an army hospital in Serbia) and his support for Irish republicanism and socialism also did not make him initially popular with colleagues. 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Gilbert Murray (or George Gilbert Aime) (January 2, 1866 - 1957) was a British classical scholar and diplomat. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... The Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија) is a republic in southeastern and central Europe, which is united with Montenegro in a loose commonwealth known as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. ... Irish Republicanism is the nationalist belief that all of Ireland should be a united independent republic. ... Socialism is an ideology of a social and economic system in which the means of production are collectively owned and administered by all of society. ...

He was author of The Greeks and the Irrational and Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety, and the editor of a number of major classical texts for the Clarendon Press, including Euripedes's Bacchae and Plato's Gorgias. His autobiography, Missing Persons, was published in 1977. At the moment this page contains a list of links. ... Oxford University Press (OUP) is a highly-respected publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. ... Euripides (c. ... The Bacchae (also known as The Bacchantes) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. ... Plato Plato (Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn) (c. ... Gorgias refers to the last dialogue that Plato wrote before leaving Athens. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...

Dodds had a lifelong interest in mysticism and psychic research, being a member of the council of the Society for Psychical Research from 1927 and its president from 1961-1963. Mysticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Parapsychology is the study of the evidence involving phenomena where a person seems to affect or gain information about something through a means not currently explainable within the framework of mainstream, conventional science. ... The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was founded in 1882 by three dons of Trinity College, Cambridge, Edmund Gurney, Frederic William Henry Myers, and Henry Sidgwick, because of their interest in spiritualism. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...