Kenneth J Dover
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768111 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth J Dover |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dover |
| SIGNATURE | DOVER K J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Clouds
"Clouds" published on by null.
Ancient Greek Literature
This historical survey of Greek literature from 700 BC to 550 AD concentrates on the principal authors and quotes many passages from their work in translation, to allow the reader to form his own impression of its quality, including Homer, Plato, Aristophanes, and Euripides. Attention is drawn both to the elements in Greek literature and attitudes to life which are unfamiliar to us, and to the elements which appeal most powerfully to succeeding g…
Aristophanes
The Language of Criticism in Aristophanes’ Frogs
Frogs is a comedy which we can enjoy for its own sake, but it is also a document from which we can infer Athenian attitudes to tragedy. But when we speak of ‘Athenian’ attitudes, we are bringing together under a single rubric the ordinary member of the audience, the connoisseurs of poetry, the established conventional standpoint of comedy, the views of Aristophanes himself as an individual, and possibly also an intellectual treatment of tragedy w…
Owls to Athens
Clouds
Thucydides "As History" and "As Literature
Socrates in the Clouds
Socrates was seventy at the time of his trial in 399 b.c.,1 and therefore forty-five when Aristophanes conceived and composed the original version2 of the Clouds. He was physically hard,3 and we should certainly not imagine that he had more fat and less muscle than other Athenians;4 in the autumn of 424 he fought as a hoplite at Delion and took part in the gruelling retreat.5 It is probable that his hair was greying noticeably;6 the allegation th…
Lo stile di Aristofane
Lo stile di Aristofane
Socrates in the Clouds
Socrates was seventy at the time of his trial in 399 b.c.,1 and therefore forty-five when Aristophanes conceived and composed the original version2 of the Clouds. He was physically hard,3 and we should certainly not imagine that he had more fat and less muscle than other Athenians;4 in the autumn of 424 he fought as a hoplite at Delion and took part in the gruelling retreat.5 It is probable that his hair was greying noticeably;6 the allegation th…
Thucydides "As History" and "As Literature
Clouds
Owls to Athens
The Language of Criticism in Aristophanes’ Frogs
Frogs is a comedy which we can enjoy for its own sake, but it is also a document from which we can infer Athenian attitudes to tragedy. But when we speak of ‘Athenian’ attitudes, we are bringing together under a single rubric the ordinary member of the audience, the connoisseurs of poetry, the established conventional standpoint of comedy, the views of Aristophanes himself as an individual, and possibly also an intellectual treatment of tragedy w…
Aristophanes
Ancient Greek Literature
This historical survey of Greek literature from 700 BC to 550 AD concentrates on the principal authors and quotes many passages from their work in translation, to allow the reader to form his own impression of its quality, including Homer, Plato, Aristophanes, and Euripides. Attention is drawn both to the elements in Greek literature and attitudes to life which are unfamiliar to us, and to the elements which appeal most powerfully to succeeding g…
Clouds
"Clouds" published on by null.
Art (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · 882/.01 (2 works) · Comedy (2 works) · Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author) (2 works)