Scholarship and Controversy: Centenary Essays on the Life and Work of Sir Kenneth Dover

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The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of the twentieth century's most influential classical scholars. Between them, they explore the two major sides of his career: his groundbreaking scholarship on Greek language, literature and history, and the more public-facing roles he assumed in universities and at the British Academy which brought him into the national spotlight, not without some notoriety, in his later years. The contributors consider the various facets of Dover's life and work from a range of perspectives which reflect the burgeoning field of the history of scholarship. Some contributors were students and colleagues of Dover's at different stages of his career, while others are themselves leading experts in areas of Classics to which he devoted his energies. Chapters on his academic publications and on the controversies he faced in the public realm are not bland celebrations of his legacy but offer critical assessments of his motivations and achievements, cumulatively demonstrating that there is much to be learned not just about Dover himself but also about the fields he helped to shape. Cover Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page CONTENTS IMAGES CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION Christopher Stray Parents and son Dover as scholar and analyst Dover and others Oxford and elsewhere Dover in the history of Classics Life and work together Notes PART I THE LIFE CHAPTER 1 DOVER AT SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY Christopher Stray Oxford Conclusion Appendix: Two Poems by Kenneth Dover Notes CHAPTER 2 DOVER, OXFORD AND THE STUDY OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE: THE MAKING OF A PROFESSIONAL SCHOLAR Tim Rood The changing faces of Mods and Greats Dover’s Mods: Marginal Comment and beyond The value of Hellenism: Dover and Murray Conclusion Notes CHAPTER 3 DOVER AND ST ANDREWS Elizabeth Craik Notes CHAPTER 4 DOVER AND CORPUS Ewen Bowie Appendix 1: Appendix 2: Notes CHAPTER 5 DOVER, BLUNT AND THE BRITISH ACADEMY1 Robin Osborne Blunt The British Academy The Press Marginal Comment Notes CHAPTER 6 MARGINAL COMMENT: COMPOSITION, PUBLICATION AND RECEPTION Christopher Stray Marginal Comment and OUP Marginal Comment at Duckworth Reception Notes PART II THE WORK CHAPTER 7 DOVER ON THUCYDIDES Christopher Pelling Notes CHAPTER 8 DOVER AND PLATO’S SYMPOSIUM: ATTRACTION, AVERSION AND INTEMPERANCE Frisbee C.C. Sheffield Dover and philosophy Dover, philosophy and erôs Dover, philosophy and faith Conclusion Notes CHAPTER 9 DOVER AND GREEK POPULAR MORALITY Christopher Carey Notes CHAPTER 10 DOVER AND GREEK DRAMA Constanze Güthenke Notes CHAPTER 11 AFTER GREEK HOMOSEXUALITY Carol Atack Text and context Re-reading Greek Homosexuality Reception: domination and historicism Conclusion Notes CHAPTER 12 DOVER’S ‘INCH’: REFLECTIONS ON THE ART-HISTORICAL METHOD IN GREEK HOMOSEXUALITY Jaś Elsner Dover’s painted pottery Dover’s ‘inch’: the problems of realism Coda: If not reality . . . Appendix: Dover’s List of Vases Collated Against Beazley’s Corpora by Provenance. Notes CHAPTER 13 DOVER AND THEOCRITUS* Richard Hunter Notes CHAPTER 14 NO STONE UNTURNED: DOVER AS HISTORIAN OF GREEK LANGUAGE BETWEEN EPIGRAPHY AND LITERATURE Lucia Prauscello ‘A history man’: Language, inscriptions and the human past No stone unturned Dialect and register Conclusion Notes CHAPTER 15 DOVER ON STYLE Ben Cartlidge Greek Word Order and early studies The purpose of statistics The evolution of The Evolution of Greek Prose Style The reception of The Evolution of Greek Prose Style Future – Tense? Notes EPILOGUE CHAPTER 16 DOVER AND THE PUBLIC FACE OF CLASSICS Stephen Halliwell Appendix Kenneth Dover, ‘The value of Classics’60 Notes CHAPTER 17 MEMORIES OF KENNETH DOVER REBECCA DOVER SIR BRIAN HARRISON JAY PARINI DAVID STUTTARD Notes BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX