Douglas Cairns
Douglas Cairns | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 63–64) Glasgow, Scotland |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Glasgow (MA, PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Douglas MacDowell Alexander F. Garvie |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Sub-discipline | Emotions, Distributed Cognition, aidos |
| Institutions | University of Glasgow University of Edinburgh |
| Notable works | Aidôs: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (1993) |
Douglas Laidlaw Cairns (born 1961) is a Scottish classicist, Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh, former Chair of the Classical Association, and the current Chair of the Edinburgh University Press. He specialises in the study of Greek society, ethics, literature, emotional life, and the ways in which these are reflected in Greek epic, tragedy, and lyric poetry.