The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures)
by E. R. Dodds
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Author: E. R. DoddsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-06-16
ISBN: 0520242300
Number of pages: 335
Publisher: University of California Press
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This is a book that can't fail to grip. Specialist or non-specialist, or just interested in our culture, Dodds' course of lectures will haunt you. We do our cultural ancestors, the Ancient Greeks, a disservice by thinking of them as the last word in rational thought at all times. They too had their psychic side, upon which their philosophy and art developed. For them, madness or possession (mania)could be positive as well as negative - a god-sent gift to the favoured. There is a thoughtful, attention-gripping, examination of the treatise of Hippokrates on the Sacred Disease (epilepsy). Here too, possibly the first description of an 'out-of-body experience' - to be found in Pindar, c.460 BCE.When you've read this book, you can't forget it - for the Irrational of the Greeks is with us still, not so very far below the surface.
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