The Ancient Concept of Progress and Other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief

Oxford: Clarendon Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0198143702 . Previous owner's name. Some fading to dust-jacket spine. Some rubbing to head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; vi, [2], 218, [2 (blank)] pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 135mm. Contents: The Ancient Concept of Progress; The 'Prometheus Vinctus' and the Progress of Scholarship; Morals and Politics in the 'Oresteia'; On Misunderstanding the 'Oedipus Rex'; Euripides the Irrationalist; The Sophistic Movement and the Failure of Greek Liberalism; Plato and the Irrational; Tradition and Personal Achievement in the Philosophy of Plotinus; The Religion of the Ordinary Man in Classical Greece; Supernormal Phenomena in Classical Antiquity; Index of Passages Discussed; General Index. "All the pieces in this collection originated as lectures, and most of them bear clear marks of their origin. The lectures were delivered to audiences as various as the Cambridge Philological Society, the Society for Psychical Research, and the Sixth Form at Marlborough College, and in their written form they make correspondingly various demands on the reader." - from the Preface, page v. .