Douglas Cairns
Douglas Cairns | |
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| Born | 10 January 1961 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 10 January 1961) is a Scottish classicist. Since 2004, he has served as Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. 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.