Prof Douglas Cairns - PI

Prof Douglas Cairns - PI

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Douglas Cairns was appointed to the Chair of Classics at Edinburgh in 2003, having previously worked at the Universities of St Andrews, Otago, Leeds, and Glasgow. He is the author of Aidôs: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (1993), Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes (2010), and Sophocles: Antigone (2015), and has edited or co-edited a number of volumes on Greek literature, thought, and society. The most recent of these are Vision and Viewing in Ancient Greece (with Sue Blundell and Nancy Rabinowitz, 2013), Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought (2013), Defining Greek Narrative (with Ruth Scodel, 2014), and Emotions between Greece and Rome (with Laurel Fulkerson, 2015). He is currently working on the role of metaphor in ancient Greek concepts of emotion.