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Kenneth Dover

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#652

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#1578

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Classical Studies

#21

World Rank

#43

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Kenneth Dover's Degrees

Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
PhD Classics University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Sir Kenneth James Dover, was a distinguished British classical scholar and academic. He was president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 1976 to 1986. In addition, he was president of the British Academy from 1978 to 1981, and chancellor of the University of St Andrews from 1981 to 2005. A scholar of Greek prose and Aristophanic comedy, he was also the author of Greek Homosexuality , a key text on the subject.

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Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle (1974) (412)
A historical commentary on Thucydides (1945) (346)
Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment (1982) (197)
Greek homosexuality (1979) (147)
Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum (1968) (111)
Dithyramb, tragedy and comedy (109)
The Political Aspect of Aeschylus's Eumenides (1957) (72)
Aristophanes' Speech in Plato's Symposium (1966) (63)
Greek Word Order (1960) (62)
The evolution of Greek prose style (1997) (51)
The Rivals of Aristophanes: Studies in Athenian Old Comedy (2002) (51)
Theocritus: Select Poems (1988) (49)
"Owls to Athens" : essays on classical subjects presented to Sir Kenneth Dover (1990) (48)
The Chronology of Antiphon's Speeches (1950) (34)
Socrates in the Clouds (1971) (31)
EROS AND NOMOS1: (PLATO, SYMPOSIUM 182A–185C) (1964) (28)
Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour (2008) (27)
Some Evaluative Terms in Aristophanes (2002) (23)
The Greeks and their legacy (1988) (22)
Androtion on Ostracism (1963) (21)
The portrayal of moral evaluation in Greek poetry (1983) (20)
The Heroes of Aristophanes (1966) (19)
Some neglected Aspects of Agamemnon's dilemma (1973) (18)
The Date of Plato's Symposium1 (1965) (16)
Thucydides "As History" and "As Literature" (1983) (14)
The Greeks and Their Legacy: Collected Papers, Vol. 2 (1991) (10)
Marginal Comment: A Memoir (1994) (9)
Ancient Greek Literature (1980) (9)
A Historical Commentary on Thucydides. Volume IV (1973) (6)
The Greeks and their legacy : prose literature, history, society, transmission, influence (1988) (6)
Aristophanes, Knights 11–20 (1959) (6)
Thucydides, Book II (1964) (5)
Anapsephisis in Fifth-Century Athens (1955) (5)
Perceptions of the ancient Greeks (1992) (4)
Fathers, Sons and Forgiveness (1991) (4)
THE LANGUAGE OF CLASSICAL ATTIC DOCUMENTARY INSCRIPTIONS (1981) (4)
THE LIMITS OF ALLEGORY AND ALLUSION IN ARISTOPHANES (2004) (4)
The Language of Criticism in Aristophanes’ Frogs (1992) (3)
Diokleides and the Light of the Moon (1965) (2)
Anthemocritus and the Megarians (1966) (2)
Aristophanes, Clouds. With Introduction and Commentary (1969) (2)
Ancient Interpolation in Aristophanes (1977) (2)
Greek and the Greeks : language, poetry, drama (1987) (2)
Some Types of Abnormal Word-Order in Attic Comedy (1985) (2)
The Patmos Scholia and the text of Thucydides (1955) (1)
Classical Greek attitudes to illness. (1996) (1)
comedy, Greek, origins of (2015) (1)
A Historical Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. V: Book VIII (1981) (1)
Aristophanes: Clouds, Acharnians, Lysistrata: A Companion to the Penguin Translation of Alan H. Sommerstein (1991) (1)
Archilochus - Archiloque: Les Fragments . Texte établi par François Lasserre, traduit et commenté par André Bonnard. Pp. cxiii + 105. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1958. Paper. (1960) (1)
(C. W.) Dearden The stage of Aristophanes . (Univ. of London classical studies, 7.) London: Athlone Press. 1976. Pp. xiii + 203. £7·00. (1977) (0)
Aristophanes: The Wasps . Translated by Douglass Parker. Pp. 130. London: Cresset Press (for University of Michigan Press), 1962. Cloth, 28s. net. (1965) (0)
Problems in Thucydides VI and VII (1955) (0)
Theopompus (2), Athenian comic poet (2016) (0)
Thucydidean Questions (1973) (0)
The Scholia on the Knights (1972) (0)
Sophron, Syracusan writer, 5th cent. BCE (2016) (0)
Greek Negatives (1960) (0)
Aristophanes' Language (1968) (0)
The Greeks a Journey in Space and Time (1980) (0)
Woltherus Kassies: Aristophanes' Traditionalisme. (Amsterdam diss.) Pp. 129. Amsterdam: van Soest, 1963. Paper. [In Dutch, with French summary. (1965) (0)
A Historical Commentary on Thucydides. Volume 5: Book 8 (1982) (0)
Maas on Greek Metre (1963) (0)
Federal Property Programs (2003) (0)
Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae and the Nature of Tragedy Epstein: Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae and the Nature of Tragedy Epstein: Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae and the Nature of Tragedy Epstein: Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae and the Nature of Tragedy toward a Technology That Allows the Beaut (0)
Hermippus (1), Old Comedy poet, 2nd half of 5th cent. BCE (2016) (0)
Greek Sexual Choices (1991) (0)
Sophilus, comic poet (2016) (0)
prose-rhythm, Greek (2016) (0)
(K.) Maurer Interpolation in Thucydides. (Mnemosyne Supplement 150.) Leiden and New York: Brill, 1995. Pp. xxiv + 242. Fl. 130, $74.50. 9004103007. (1997) (0)
Translation: the Speakable and the Unspeakable (1980) (0)
Timocles, Middle Comedy poet (2016) (0)
Metagenes, Athenian comic poet (2016) (0)
W. J. W. Koster: Scholia Recentiora in Nubes (= Scholia in Aristophanem , Pars I, Fasc. III. 2). Pp. cxxviii + 476; 1 plate. Groningen: Bouma, 1974. Cloth, fl. 320. (1978) (0)
The Text of Thucydides (1957) (0)
Ptolemaeus (2) Chennos, of Alexandria (1), mythologico-grammatical writer (2016) (0)
Thucydides. La guerre du Péloponnèse, livre VIII. Ed. and trans. R. Weil. Collab. J. de Romilly. (Assn G. Budé.) Paris: ‘Les Belles Lettres’ 1972. Pp. xxxiv + 141. 1 map. 40.00F. (1974) (0)
(A. W.) Pickard-Cambridge Dithyramb, tragedy and comedy. 2nd ed. by T. B. L. Webster. Oxford: the Clarendon Press. 1962. Pp. xii + 334. 16 plates. 6 text figures. £2 10s. (1964) (0)
The Roman Army 31 b.c.-a.d. 337 (1995) (0)
Neoptolemus (2), of Parium, Greek writer (2016) (0)
Thucydides. La Guerre du Péloponnèse. Livre I. Texte établi et traduit par J. de Romilly. Pp. lix + 107. Paris: Société d'Edition ‘Les Belles Lettres’, 1953. Price not stated. (1956) (0)
Clearchus (2), Greek poet of Middle Comedy, 2nd half of 4th cent. BCE (2016) (0)
Aristophanes (1), Athenian poet of Old Comedy, 2nd half of 5th cent. BCE (2015) (0)
Undergraduate Studies: motives and expectations (1982) (0)
Aeschylus, Fr. 248 M (1964) (0)
Pindar, Olϒmpian Odes 6. 82–86 (1959) (0)
Sannyrion, Athenian comic poet (2016) (0)
Back Matter (1972) (0)
Hephaestion (2), metrist (2016) (0)
Homosexuality and initiation in ancient Greece (1984) (0)
Theophilus (1), Athenian comic poet (2016) (0)
The Palatine Manuscript of Thucydides (1954) (0)
Aristomenes (2), Athenian comic poet, late 5th cent. BCE (2015) (0)
(W. den) Boer Private morality in Greece and Rome: some historical aspects. (Mnemosyne, supp. 57.) Leiden: Brill. 1979. Pp. xii + 305. Fl. 80. (1982) (0)
(K.) Lever. The Art of Greek Comedy. London: Methuen, 1956. Pp. xi + 212. 21s. (1957) (0)
Old histories, new questions (1995) (0)
(I. F.) Stone The trial of Socrates . London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. Pp. xi + 282. £12.95. (1990) (0)
Sotades (1), Athenian comic poet (2016) (0)
Classical Papers (1992) (0)
An Index to Plato (1978) (0)
Scholia on aristophanes (1981) (0)
Style, Genre and Author (1994) (0)
Pindar, Isthmians 6. 4 (1951) (0)
Philonides (1), Athenian comic poet (2016) (0)
Sally Humphreys: The Family, Women and Death. Comparative Studies. Pp. xiv + 210. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. £15. (1984) (0)
Myrtilus, Athenian comic poet (2016) (0)
Byrne R. S. Fone (ed.): Hidden Heritage. History and the Gay Imagination. An Anthology. Pp. xviii + 323. New York: Avocation Publishers, n.d. (1981) (0)
Letter: Trevor Aston Obituary (1996) (0)
The Greeks: From the BBC television series by Christopher Burstall and Kenneth Dover (1981) (0)
Elie S. Spyropoulos: L'Accumulation verbale chez Aristophane. Pp. xvi + 234. Thessaloniki, 1974. Paper. (1978) (0)
Thucydides. La Guerre du Peloponnese. Livre I (1956) (0)
Recherches sur les mètres de la lyrique chorale grecque: la structure du vers . By J. Irigoin. Paris: Klincksieck, 1953. Pp. 105. Price not stated. (1954) (0)
G. Redard: Recherches sur χρ , χρ σθαι. Étude sémantique . (Bibl. de l'École des Hautes Études, Sect, des Sc. Hist, et Philol., fasc. 303.) Pp. 122. Paris: Champion, 1953. Paper. (1955) (0)
(R.) Harriott Poetry and criticism before Plato. London: Methuen. 1969. Pp. xiii + 168. 1 plate. £2 10s. (1970) (0)
The Budé Thucydides (1956) (0)
The Copula in Greek (1963) (0)
La guerre du Peloponnese, livre VIII (1974) (0)
Teleclides, Athenian comic poet (2016) (0)
C. M. J. Sicking, J. M. Van Ophuijsen: Two Studies in Attic Particle Usage. Lysias and Plato . (Mnemosyne Supplement, 129.) Pp. xii+175. Leiden, New York, Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1993. Cased, Gld. 90/$51.50. (1995) (0)
comedy, Greek, Old (2015) (0)
Plato (2), Athenian comic poet (2016) (0)

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