Classical Scholar
As a classical scholar, Raven's interests were in ancient philosophy. In 1957 he published with Geoffrey Kirk The Pre-Socratic philosophers, a standard work for undergraduates still in use today. Raven contributed the chapters relating to the Italian tradition (Pythagoras of Samos, Alcmaeon of Croton, Pre-Parmenidean Pythagoreanism, Parmenides of Elea, Zeno of Elea, Melissus of Samos, Philolaus of Croton and Eurytus of Croton) and on Anaxagoras and Archelaus.
As Senior Tutor at King's in the 1960s he turned the college to the left telling public schools that their boys could no longer expect to swan in as before.
Raven was the undergraduate tutor of Myles Burnyeat who would subsequently become the fifth Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University.
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