Kenneth Dover

Professor Sir Kenneth James Dover was born in London 11 March 1920 and was a Scholar of St Paul's School in London, where the teaching of Classics was given pride of intellectual place. Dover was the foremost Hellenist of his generation, a skilled and authoritative interpreter of almost all the multifarious genres of ancient Greek literature. 1980 saw two rare forays into direct engagement with the broader public: a collection of essays that he edited and contributed to under the title of Ancient Greek Literature, and a BBC TV series, The Greeks: A Journey in Space and Time. Dover was a Tutorial Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford, between 1948-1955; Professor of Greek, University of St Andrews, between 1955-1976; President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, between1976-1986; and President of the British Academy between1978-1981. He was married to Audrey Latimer from 1947 until Latimer's death in 2009; having two children - one son (Alan) and one daughter (Catherine). He dies on 7 March 2010. His works included: Greek Word Order (1960) Thucydides: Book VI (BCP Greek Texts) (1965) Thucydides: Book VII (1965) Aristophanes: Clouds (1968) Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum (1968) Theocritus: Select Poems (1971) Aristophanic Comedy (1972) Thucydides, (Greece & Rome New Surveys, 1973) Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle (1974) Greek Homosexuality (1978) Plato: Symposium (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1980) The Greeks (1980) Ancient Greek Literature (1980) Greek and the Greeks: Collected Papers; language, poetry, drama (1987) The Greeks and their Legacy (1988) Aristophanes: Frogs (1993) Marginal Comment: a memoir, (1994) The Evolution of Greek Prose Style (1997).