AKA Eric Alfred Havelock

Born: 3-Jun-1903
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 4-Apr-1988
Location of death: Poughkeepsie, NY
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Scholar

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Preface to Plato

Wife: Christine (until his death)
Daughter: Joan Ellen Wheeler-Bennett
Son: John Eric Havelock
Son: Ronald Geoffrey Havelock

    High School: Leys School, Cambridge
    University: Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (1926)
    Professor: Acadia University
    Professor: Victoria College, University of Toronto

Author of books:
The Crucifixion of Intellectual Man (1950, criticism)
The Liberal Temper in Greek Politics (1957, criticism)
Preface to Plato (1963, philosophy)
The Lyric Genius of Catullus (1967, criticism)
Prologue to Greek Literacy (1971, criticism)
The Greek Concept of Justice: From Its Shadow in Homer to Its Substance in Plato (1978, history)
The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences (1982, history)
The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present (1986, history)

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