Douglas Cairns

Douglas Cairns FHEA, FRSE, FBA, MAE
Born	1961, Glasgow, Scotland.
Academic background
Alma mater	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 British classicist, Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh, former Chair of the Classical Association, and the current Chair of the Edinburgh University Press.^[1][2] 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.