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Eric A. Havelock

1903 - 1988

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Eric Alfred Havelock (; 3 June 1903 – 4 April 1988) was a British classicist who spent most of his life in Canada and the United States. He was a professor at the University of Toronto and was active in the Canadian socialist movement during the 1930s. In the 1960s and 1970s, he served as chair of the classics departments at both Harvard and Yale. Although he was trained in the turn-of-the-20th-century Oxbridge tradition of classical studies, which saw Greek intellectual history as an unbroken chain of related ideas, Havelock broke radically with his own teachers and proposed an entirely new model for understanding the classical world, based on a sharp division between literature of the 6th and 5th centuries BC on the one hand, and that of the 4th on the other. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Eric A. Havelock is the 1,229th most popular philosopher (down from 1,168th in 2024), the 5,104th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,844th in 2019) and the 94th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among philosophers, Eric A. Havelock ranks 1,229 out of 1,267. Before him are Vicente Ferreira da Silva, C. H. Dodd, Paul Churchland, William Ames, Cornel West, and Ralph Barton Perry. After him are Stanley Jaki, Julia Annas, Susan Haack, J. J. C. Smart, Ned Block, and Mary Kay Letourneau.

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Among people born in 1903, Eric A. Havelock ranks 336. Before him are Bob Skelton, Willi Multhaup, Una Merkel, John Heysham Gibbon, Erik Svensson, and DeHart Hubbard. After him are Jaipal Singh Munda, Mikhail Svetlov, George E. Stone, Mike Mansfield, Vera Stroyeva, and Otto von Porat. Among people deceased in 1988, Eric A. Havelock ranks 245. Before him are Nora Astorga, Greta Nissen, Ella Raines, Lin Carter, John M. Allegro, and István Klimek. After him are Lois Wilson, John N. Mitchell, Archie Cochrane, Melvin Frank, Jackie Milburn, and Raúl Landini.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eric A. Havelock ranks 5,103 out of 8,785. Before him are Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin (1866), Frederick E. Morgan (1894), and James, Viscount Severn (2007). After him are Carol V. Robinson (1956), Lynsey de Paul (1948), Æthelwold of Winchester (900), Anthony Powell (1905), Ernest Townsend (1880), Mary Lamb (1764), R. J. Mitchell (1895), Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1869), and Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (1827).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Eric A. Havelock ranks 94. Before him are Alister McGrath (1953), George Henry Lewes (1817), Mary Midgley (1919), Simon Blackburn (1944), C. H. Dodd (1884), and William Ames (1576). After him are Susan Haack (1945), J. J. C. Smart (1920), James Dunn (1939), Peter Geach (1916), Richard Crashaw (1612), and Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954).

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