Scholarship and controversy : Centenary essays on the life and work of Sir Kenneth Dover.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halliwell, Stephen, editor.

Stray, Christopher, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

System Details:

text file

HTML/PDF

Summary:

Written to celebrate the 100th birthday of Sir Kenneth Dover, this volume unites the two major elements in his life: the relatively private groundbreaking scholarly work he did on aspects of Greek language and history and the more public-facing roles he assumed in universities and at the British Academy that led to him being in the national spotlight later in his career. The contributors to this volume consider all the major facets of Dover's life and work, setting them in the context of the burgeoning field of the history of scholarship. Contributors include students and colleagues of Dover's at different stages of his career, while others are themselves leading experts in areas of Classics to which Dover devoted his energies. Chapters on his academic works and the controversies he faced in public life are not bland celebrations of his legacy but critique and assess his life and work, ensuring that there is much to be learned not just about Dover but also about the fields he helped to shape..

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 Guthenke, 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.

ISBN:

9781350333482

OCLC:

1356003965

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