Description
Re-issue, to celebrate his 100th birthday, of a vivid and controversial memoir by one of the twentieth century's foremost classicists.
About the Author
Sir Kenneth Dover was Professor Emeritus of Greek at the University of St Andrews and President of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK. Among his many publications are Greek Homosexuality (reissued with forewords, Bloomsbury, 2016). Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow, University of Swansea, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Classics, University of London, UK. He is a leading authority on the history of classical scholarship. His publications include Remaking the Classics: Literature, Genre and Media in Britain, 1800-2000 (Bloomsbury 2007) A.E. Housman: Classical Scholar (Bloomsbury, 2009) and Classical Dictionaries: Past, Present and Future (Bloomsbury, 2010). Stephen Halliwell is Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of The Poetics of Aristotle: Translation and Commentary (Bloomsbury, 1987) and Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity (2008).
Reviews
Sir Kenneth Dover was both one of the 20th century's most brilliant classicists and a far from merely academic protagonist in at least two major intellectual scandals - about which he laid bare his heart as well as his head. This new edition of his blisteringly controversial memoir, Marginal Comment, is hugely to be welcomed. * Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge, UK *
It has been a great pleasure rereading his autobiography nearly 20 years on. Edited by Stephen Halliwell, a colleague of Dover's at St Andrews, and Christopher Stray, an expert on the history of classical education and scholarship, it makes important and enlightening additions to the original text. * Classics for All *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350295827
Author Sir K. J. Dover
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC