Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety: Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine

Dodds, Robert; Dodds, E. R.

ISBN 10: 0521385997 / ISBN 13: 9780521385992

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1991

Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0521385997I2N00

Synopsis:

Dodds examines the personal religious attitudes and experiences common to pagans and Christians in the period between Marcus Aurelius and Constantine.

Review: 'The outstanding characteristics of [Dodds's] work ... are a rather rare union of detachment and sympathy, a combination of precise scholarship and a degree of acquaintance with contemporary psychological theories unusual in a classical scholar, and last but not least, an ability to write very well.' The Times Literary Supplement

'Professor Dodds mutes and muffles nothing ... His tone is level and just, his understanding is comprehensive and his emphasis is never polemic. There is a dry inner light in his writing which falls evenly in every sentence, a distillation of restrained wit and of the lifelong exercise of scholarship.' Peter Levi, The Tablet

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Title: Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety: ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Condition: As New
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