THE CONCEPT OF AΙΙDOS IN GREEK LITERATURE FROM HOMER TO 404 B

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THE CONCEPT OF AΙΙDOS IN GREEK LITERATURE FROM HOMER TO 404 B
Douglas Laidlow Cairns
Degree of Ph. d., Faculty of ArtsApril, 1987
© Douglas L. Cairns MCMLXXXVII.

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PREFACE.
The scope of the thesis, as given in the title, requires some explanation: 404 B. C. is largely a nominal cut-off point, since, although authors whose entire oeuvre falls after that date are excluded, except for incidental references, it
seemed better to consider the whole of Aristophanes, even though his last two plays take us well into the fourth century; in the case, too, of the fragments of Demokritos, much of the material considered may be of fourth century date,but the corpus as a whole is included for the sake of the light which the fragments shed on fifth century controversies. I should like to thank my supervisors, Professor D. M. MacDowell and Mr. A. F. Garvie, especially for their generosity and support during the period of my research, but also more generally
for the excellent education I received at their (and their colleagues’) hands as an undergraduate. The debts which one owes to one’s teachers, perhaps, may never be repaid, but I should like to go some way towards that end by mentioning also two most inspirational schoolmasters, A. C. Jones and A. H. Murray, without whose example I should probably never have considered pursuing the study of classics. Thanks must also go to my wife, who endured my unsociability and read many parts of my work in the (fruitful) search for errors. I dedicate this work to my mother and to the memory of my father.

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