Joseph Eddy Fontenrose
Author
1903 – 1986
Who was Joseph Eddy Fontenrose?
Joseph Eddy Fontenrose was an American classical scholar. He was centrally interested in Greek religion and Greek mythology; he was also an expert on John Steinbeck, commenting on the mythology in Steinbeck's work.
He was from Sutter Creek, California. Most of his academic career was spent at University of California, Berkeley, where he had graduated in 1925 in Political Science, after an instructor position he held from 1937. An early influence was Ivan Linforth. He was made a professor in 1955, chaired the classics department, and became professor emeritus.
His politics were known to be socialist. He gave public support in the early 1960s to the Free Speech Movement and Young People's Socialist League. He showed a more conservative side in relation to student activism as it touched teaching.
In a 1966 book he subjected the myth-ritual theory to an intense attack, targeting the views of some of the associated scholars, particularly Lord Raglan and Stanley Edgar Hyman.
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- Born
- Jun 17, 1903
Sutter Creek - Also known as
- Joseph Fontenrose
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
History
( - 1933/12)
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- California
- Died
- Jul 7, 1986
Ashland
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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