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

＂Written to celebrate the 100th birthday of Sir Kenneth Dover, this volume unites the two major elements in his life: the relatively private groundbreaking scholarly work he did on aspects of Greek language and history and the more public-facing roles he assumed in universities and at the British Academy that led to him being in the national spotlight later in his career. The contributors to this volume consider all the major facets of Dover’s life and work, setting them in the context of the burgeoning field of the history of scholarship. Contributors include students and colleagues of Dover’s at different stages of his career, while others are themselves leading experts in areas of Classics to which Dover devoted his energies＂--

Stephen Halliwell is Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of Greek at the University of St Andrews, UK. His books include Aristotle’s Poetics (Bloomsbury, 1986), Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity (2008) and a commentary on Pseudo-Longinus, On the Sublime (2022).

Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Swansea, UK. His publications include Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities, and Society 1830-1960 (1998) and Classics in Britain: Scholarship, Education, and Publishing 1800-2000 (2018).