ABSTRACT
The Oxford University Press has just reprinted nine works of classical scholarship among seventy titles in a new series “Scholarly Classics,” in which “great academic works” from its archives have been resurrected in order to allow “fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century”. Classicists are familiar with the general picture of E. R. Dodds’ achievement, as well as with the susceptibility of his approach to the charge of anachronism. The Oxford Press must be congratulated for reprinting the autobiography. It deserves to be read by a new generation of classicists, one that will, however, have to cope unaided with prosopographical challenges. But historians of classical scholarship should be warned. Missing Persons is at best a catalyst for the unfinished task of analyzing a rich and varied career, and assessing an influential legacy. An intellectual framework was more readily adapted to pagan classical literature than to the texts of Neoplatonism.
