Ivan Mortimer Linforth
Ivan Mortimer Linforth (15 September 1879,
Eric R. Dodds writing in 1951 that due to Linforth "[t]he edifice reared by an ingenious scholarship upon these foundations remains for me a house of dreams".[5]
Notes
- ^ Ward W. Briggs, Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists (1994), article pp. 362-3.
- ^ Graf and Johnston, p. 61.
- Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, John Earle Raven, Malcolm Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts (1983), p. 21.
- ^ According to Chrysanthou, p. 2, "Linforth shifted scholarly opinion on Orphism in the opposite direction" from the conceptions of earlier scholars.
- ^ Edmonds 2013, p. 59.
References
- Chrysanthou, Anthi, Defining Orphism: The Beliefs, the Teletae and the Writings, .
- Edmonds, Radcliffe G., Redefining Ancient Orphism: A Study in Greek Religion, Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-107-03821-9.
- Graf, Fritz, and Sarah Iles Johnston, Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, Routledge, 2007. ISBN 978-0-415-41550-7.
External links
- Ivan Mortimer Linforth at the Database of Classical Scholars
- Obituary notice
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