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

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.

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