Scholarship and controversy : centenary essays on the life and work of Sir Kenneth Dover /: centenary essays on the life and work of Sir Kenneth Dover. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stephen Halliwell, Christopher Stray.
• Editors: Halliwell, Stephen; Stray, Christopher
• Other Names: Dover, K. J (Kenneth James) 1920-2010 honouree.
• Contents: List of ImagesList of ContributorsPrefaceList of Abbreviations Introduction (Christopher Stray, Swansea University, UK) Part I The LifeDover at school and university (with an Appendix: Two poems by Kenneth Dover) (Christopher Stray, Swansea University, UK)Dover, Oxford and the study of classical literature: the making of a professional scholar (Tim Rood, University of Oxford, UK)Dover and St Andrews (Elizabeth Craik, University of St Andrews, UK )Dover and Corpus (with two Appendices) (Ewen Bowie, University of Oxford, UK)Dover, Blunt and the British Academy (Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge, UK)Marginal Comment: composition, publication and reception (Christopher Stray, Swansea University, UK)Part II The WorkDover on Thucydides (Christopher Pelling, University of Oxford, UK)Dover and Plato's Symposium: attraction, aversion and intemperance (Frisbee Sheffield, University of Cambridge, UK)Dover and Greek popular morality (Christopher Stray, Swansea University, UK)Dover and drama (Constanze Güthenke, University of Oxford, UK)After Greek Homosexuality (Carol Atack, University of Cambridge, UK)Dover's inch: reflections on the art-historical method in Greek Homosexuality (with an Appendix: Dover's list of vases collated against Beazley's corpora by provenance) (Jas Elsner, University of Oxford, UK)Dover and Theocritus (Richard Hunter, University of Cambridge, UK)No stone unturned: Dover as historian of Greek language between epigraphy and literature (Lucia Prauscello, University of Oxford, UK)Dover on style (Ben Cartlidge, University of Oxford, UK)EpilogueDover and the public face of Classics (with an Appendix: Kenneth Dover, 'The value of Classics', an article translated from the Italian original) (Stephen Halliwell, University of St Andrews, UK)Memories of Kenneth Dover (Rebecca Dover, Sir Brian Harrison, Jay Parini, David Stuttard) BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (384 pages)
• Subjects: 378.0092; Learning and scholarship; Greek philology -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Civilization, Classical -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350333475; 9781350333468
• Related ISBNs: 9781350333451
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