K J Dover
Biographic Data
| ID | 1008088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K J Dover |
| GIVEN NAMES | K J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dover |
| SIGNATURE | DOVER K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour
Some Evaluative Terms in Aristophanes
This chapter establishes the range of evaluative strategies found in Greek comedy and then concentrates on an explicit lexical evaluation in comedy. It argues that it would be easy to understand why the language of Aristophanes abstains from the use of the ‘basic’ obscene metaphor in reproaching stupidity and unpleasantness if it also abstained from (1) the metaphorical use of ‘deviant’ obscenity and (2) the use of both basic and deviant obscene …
Herodotean Plausibilities
Journal Article HERODOTEAN PLAUSIBILITIES Get access KENNETH DOVER KENNETH DOVER University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 42, Issue Supplement_71, February 1998, Pages 219–225, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1998.tb01703.x Published: 22 February 2011
Marginal Comment, A Memoir
Letter
Letter: Trevor Aston Obituary Get access K Dover K Dover 49 Hepburn Gardens, St Andrews, KY16 9LS, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 41, Issue 1, SPRING 1996, Pages 261–262, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1996.41.261 Published: 01 January 1996
Aristophanes
The Greeks and Their Legacy
The Greeks and Their Legacy
Some Types of Abnormal Word-Order in Attic Comedy
On the analogy of the colloquial register in some modern languages, where narrative and argument may be punctuated by oaths and exclamations (sometimes obscene or blasphemous) in order to maintain a high affective level and compel the hearer's attention, it is reasonable to postulate that Attic conversation also was punctuated by oaths, that this ingredient in comic language was drawn from life, and that the comparative frequency of ║ (|) M M ( M…
Athenian Popular Religion
Most modern studies of Athenian religion have focused on festivals, cult practices, and individual deities. Jon Mikalson turns instead to the religious beliefs citizens of Athens spoke of and acted upon in everyday life. He uses evidence only from reliable, mostly contemporary sources such as the orators Lysias and Demosthenes, the historian Xenophon, and state decrees, sacred laws, religious dedications, and epitaphs. This in no sense a general …
A Historical Commentary on Thucydides. Volume 5
A Historical Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. V
Greek Homosexuality
A Historical Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. 5
Plato
Plato's Symposium is the most literary of all his works and one which all students of classics are likely to want to read whether or not they are studying Plato's philosophy. But the reader does need help in appreciating both the artistry and the arguments, and in comprehending the social and cultural background against which the 'praise of love' is delivered. Sir Kenneth Dover provides here a sympathetic and modern edition of the kind that is lo…
Greek Homosexuality
Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle
Theocritus. Select Poems
Aristophanic Comedy
A Historical Commentary on Thucydides. Volume IV
Armada from Athens
Aristophanes
Syrakus
A Historical Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. 4
Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum
Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum
Lysias, a resident alien at Athens in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C.E., acted as a consultant for clients involved in litigation and put into circulation written versions of the speeches that he composed for them. In the early Hellenistic period, a corpus of more than four hundred speeches was ascribed to him; however, literary critics in the first century C.E. formed the opinion that scarcely more than half that number were corre…
Athenian Popular Religion
Most modern studies of Athenian religion have focused on festivals, cult practices, and individual deities. Jon Mikalson turns instead to the religious beliefs citizens of Athens spoke of and acted upon in everyday life. He uses evidence only from reliable, mostly contemporary sources such as the orators Lysias and Demosthenes, the historian Xenophon, and state decrees, sacred laws, religious dedications, and epitaphs. This in no sense a general …
The Chronology of Antiphon's Speeches
Two firm points in the chronology of Antiphon's speeches are VI περ⋯ τοὖ χορευτοὖ in 419/8 1 and the Defence (περ⋯ τ⋯σ μεταστ⋯σεωσ) in 411/0 2 . Speech V περ⋯ τ⋯σ 'Hρῷδου is now generally dated between these two; only the vaguest attempts have been made to date I κατ⋯ τ⋯σ μητρυ⋯ασ; there is no general agreement on either the date or the authorship of the Tetralogies. The main purpose of this paper is to adduce linguistic as well as external evide…
The Skene in Aristophanes
No one can write an adequate commentary on a Greek play, or even edit it adequately, without producing it in his mind; that is to say, he must see in his mind's eye the exact location, movement and gesture of every character at every moment, arid must hear in his mind's ear the exact tone of every word. Admittedly, we do not know so very much about the appearance of the theatre in the fifth century B.C., or about the actors' costumes, or about Gr…
Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum
The Greeks and Their Legacy
Some Types of Abnormal Word-Order in Attic Comedy
On the analogy of the colloquial register in some modern languages, where narrative and argument may be punctuated by oaths and exclamations (sometimes obscene or blasphemous) in order to maintain a high affective level and compel the hearer's attention, it is reasonable to postulate that Attic conversation also was punctuated by oaths, that this ingredient in comic language was drawn from life, and that the comparative frequency of ║ (|) M M ( M…
The Date of Plato's Symposium1
Plato makes Aristophanes say (193al-3): xct 7rp'o toi... v and since the occasion portrayed in Smp. is Agathon's first theatrical victory, gained in 416 (Ath. 217 a), the anachronism is remarkable.2 Wilamowitz (Platon ii5 [Berlin, 1959] 177f., cf. i9 [Berlin, 1962] 291 n. 1) protested against this interpretation; the anachronism, he said, is unparalleled, and Plato does after all speak of 'ApxMa8e, not of Mantineia. Wilamowitz did not deny that P…
The Greeks and Their Legacy
Eros and Nomos
EROS AND NOMOS: (PLATO, SYMPOSIUM 182A–185C) Get access K. J. Dover K. J. Dover University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 11, Issue 1, December 1964, Pages 31–42, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1964.tb00003.x Published: 12 March 2010
Herodotean Plausibilities
Journal Article HERODOTEAN PLAUSIBILITIES Get access KENNETH DOVER KENNETH DOVER University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 42, Issue Supplement_71, February 1998, Pages 219–225, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1998.tb01703.x Published: 22 February 2011
Aristophanes, Knights 11–20
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The Chronology of Antiphon's Speeches
Two firm points in the chronology of Antiphon's speeches are VI περ⋯ τοὖ χορευτοὖ in 419/8 1 and the Defence (περ⋯ τ⋯σ μεταστ⋯σεωσ) in 411/0 2 . Speech V περ⋯ τ⋯σ 'Hρῷδου is now generally dated between these two; only the vaguest attempts have been made to date I κατ⋯ τ⋯σ μητρυ⋯ασ; there is no general agreement on either the date or the authorship of the Tetralogies. The main purpose of this paper is to adduce linguistic as well as external evide…
The Palatine Manuscript of Thucydides
On this the following observations should be made: 1. The sigla ABCEFM are used here as in all editions from Hude onwards, H as in Hude though not universally since, and as in Bartoletti, Per la storia del testo di Tucidide (Firenze, 1938); have not been used before. 2. In positing β as ancestor of ABEFHM but not of C I follow Hude, Bartoletti, Stuart Jones, and Powell. I differ from them in leaving out of consideration G (Monac. 228, s. xiii), w…
The Political Aspect of Aeschylus's Eumenides
The ransacking of Tragedy for indications of the political views of tragic poets is seldom profitable and may be disastrous. But Eumenides , like much that Aeschylus wrote, is unusual, and one of its unusual aspects is the clarity and persistence with which the hearer's attention is engaged in the political present as well as in the heroic past; one might almost say, directed away from the past and towards the present. The nature of this re-direc…
Aristophanes, Knights 11–20
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Greek Word Order
Greek Word Order
Eros and Nomos
EROS AND NOMOS: (PLATO, SYMPOSIUM 182A–185C) Get access K. J. Dover K. J. Dover University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 11, Issue 1, December 1964, Pages 31–42, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1964.tb00003.x Published: 12 March 2010
Thucydides
Thucydides
The Date of Plato's Symposium1
Plato makes Aristophanes say (193al-3): xct 7rp'o toi... v and since the occasion portrayed in Smp. is Agathon's first theatrical victory, gained in 416 (Ath. 217 a), the anachronism is remarkable.2 Wilamowitz (Platon ii5 [Berlin, 1959] 177f., cf. i9 [Berlin, 1962] 291 n. 1) protested against this interpretation; the anachronism, he said, is unparalleled, and Plato does after all speak of 'ApxMa8e, not of Mantineia. Wilamowitz did not deny that P…
Archiloque. Sept Exposés Et Discussions
Aristophanes' Speech in Plato's Symposium
Aristophanes' encomium on Eros ( Smp. 189c 2–193d 5) is a story with a moral. Once upon a time, all human beings were double creatures, each with two heads, two bodies and eight limbs. Then, by the command of Zeus, each double creature was cut in half, and so humans as we know them came into being. Every one of us ‘seeks his other half’, and this search is Eros. If we are pious, we may hope to be rewarded by success in the search; if we are impio…
Anthemocritus and the Megarians
Thucydides, Book VI
The Skene in Aristophanes
No one can write an adequate commentary on a Greek play, or even edit it adequately, without producing it in his mind; that is to say, he must see in his mind's eye the exact location, movement and gesture of every character at every moment, arid must hear in his mind's ear the exact tone of every word. Admittedly, we do not know so very much about the appearance of the theatre in the fifth century B.C., or about the actors' costumes, or about Gr…
Thucydides, Book VI
Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum
Lysias, a resident alien at Athens in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C.E., acted as a consultant for clients involved in litigation and put into circulation written versions of the speeches that he composed for them. In the early Hellenistic period, a corpus of more than four hundred speeches was ascribed to him; however, literary critics in the first century C.E. formed the opinion that scarcely more than half that number were corre…
Aristophanes, Clouds. With Introduction and Commentary
Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum
A Historical Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. 4
Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum
Aristophanes
Syrakus
Armada from Athens
A Historical Commentary on Thucydides. Volume IV
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