Table of Contents

List of Images
List of Contributors
Preface
List of Abbreviations

Introduction (Christopher Stray, Swansea University, UK)

Part I The Life
Dover 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 Work
Dover 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)

Epilogue
Dover 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)

Bibliography
Index

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About the Author

Stephen Halliwell is Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of Greek at the University of St Andrews, UK. His books include Aristotle’s Poetics (Bloomsbury, 1986), Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity (2008) and a commentary on Pseudo-Longinus, On the Sublime (2022).

Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Swansea, UK. His publications include Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities, and Society 1830-1960 (1998) and Classics in Britain: Scholarship, Education, and Publishing 1800-2000 (2018).