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<p>Sir <b>Kenneth James Dover</b> <a href="Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh" title="Royal Society of Edinburgh">FRSE</a> <a href="British_Academy" title="British Academy">FBA</a> (* <a href="11._M%C3%A4rz" title="11. März">11. März</a> <a href="1920" title="1920">1920</a> in <a href="London" title="London">London</a>; † <a href="7._M%C3%A4rz" title="7. März">7. März</a> <a href="2010" title="2010">2010</a> in <a href="St_Andrews" title="St Andrews">St Andrews</a>) war ein <a href="Vereinigtes_K%C3%B6nigreich" title="Vereinigtes Königreich">britischer</a> <a href="Gr%C3%A4zistik" title="Gräzistik">Gräzist</a>.
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<p>Kenneth Dover besuchte die <a href="St_Paul%E2%80%99s_School_(London)" title="St Paul’s School (London)">St Paul’s School</a> und ging danach an das <a href="Balliol_College" title="Balliol College">Balliol College</a> in <a href="Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>. Während des <a href="Zweiter_Weltkrieg" title="Zweiter Weltkrieg">Zweiten Weltkrieges</a> diente er in der britischen Artillerie. Nach dem Krieg ging er nach Oxford zurück und erlangte einen zweiten Abschluss. Er wurde 1955 <a href="Professor" title="Professor">Professor</a> für Altgriechische Philologie an der <a href="University_of_St_Andrews" title="University of St Andrews">University of St Andrews</a> in Schottland. 1975 wurde Dover in die <a href="Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh" title="Royal Society of Edinburgh">Royal Society of Edinburgh</a> gewählt, 1977 wegen seiner Leistungen als Hochschullehrer zum <a href="Knight_Bachelor" title="Knight Bachelor">Ritter</a> geschlagen. Er hatte von 1978 bis 1981 den Vorsitz der <a href="British_Academy" title="British Academy">British Academy</a>, deren Mitglied er seit 1966 war. 1979 wurde er in die <a href="American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> und als auswärtiges Mitglied in die <a href="K%C3%B6niglich_Niederl%C3%A4ndische_Akademie_der_Wissenschaften" title="Königlich Niederländische Akademie der Wissenschaften">Königlich Niederländische Akademie der Wissenschaften</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> aufgenommen. 1990 wurde er zum ordentlichen Mitglied der <a href="Academia_Europaea" title="Academia Europaea">Academia Europaea</a> gewählt.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Er verließ Schottland 1976, um Präsident des <a href="Corpus_Christi_College_(Oxford)" title="Corpus Christi College (Oxford)">Corpus Christi College</a> in Oxford zu werden. Nachfolger auf seinem Lehrstuhl war <a href="Ian_G._Kidd" title="Ian G. Kidd">Ian G. Kidd</a>. Von 1981 bis zu seiner Pensionierung im Dezember 2005 war Dover Kanzler der Universität von St Andrews. Kenneth Dover starb am 7. März 2010 kurz vor Vollendung seines 90. Lebensjahres.
</p><p>Dover war seit 1947 mit Audrey Latimer (* 1920; † Dezember 2009) verheiratet. Das Paar hatte einen Sohn und eine Tochter.
</p><p>Dover erhielt die Ehrendoktorwürde der Universitäten <a href="University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford</a>, St Andrews, <a href="University_of_Birmingham" title="University of Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, <a href="University_of_Bristol" title="University of Bristol">Bristol</a>, <a href="University_of_London" title="University of London">London</a>, <a href="University_of_Durham" title="University of Durham">Durham</a>, <a href="University_of_Liverpool" title="University of Liverpool">Liverpool</a> und Oglethorpe.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Schriften_(Auswahl)"><span id="Schriften_.28Auswahl.29"></span>Schriften (Auswahl)</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>Greek Word Order</i>. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1960, zweite Auflage 1968.</li>
<li><i>Aristophanes, Clouds. Edited with introduction and commentary</i>. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1968.</li>
<li><i>Lysias and the corpus Lysiacum</i> (= <i><a href="Sather_Classical_Lectures" title="Sather Classical Lectures">Sather Classical Lectures</a>.</i> Band 39). University of California Press, Berkeley 1968.</li>
<li><i>Theocritus, Select poems. Edited with introduction and commentary</i>. MacMillan, Basingstoke u. a. 1971.</li>
<li><i>Aristophanic Comedy</i>. University of California Press, Berkeley 1972.</li>
<li><i>Thucydides</i> (= <i>Greece and Rome. New surveys in the classics.</i> Band 7). Clarendon Press, Oxford 1973.</li>
<li><i>Greek popular morality in the time of Plato and Aristotle</i>. Blackwell, Oxford 1974.</li>
<li><i>Greek Homosexuality</i>. Duckworth, London 1978.
<ul><li>Deutsche Übersetzung: <i>Homosexualität in der griechischen Antike</i>. C. H. Beck, München 1983.</li></ul></li>
<li><i>Plato, Symposium</i>. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980.</li>
<li><i>The Greeks.</i> British Broadcasting Corporation, London 1980.</li>
<li>als Herausgeber: <i>Ancient Greek Literature.</i> Oxford University Press, Oxford 1980.</li>
<li><i>Greek and the Greeks. Collected Papers</i>. Zwei Bände, Blackwell, Oxford 1987–1988.</li>
<li><i>Aristophanes, Frogs. Edited with introduction and commentary</i>. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993.</li>
<li><i>Marginal Comment: A Memoir</i>. Duckworth, London 1994. (Autobiographie)</li>
<li><i>The Evolution of Greek Prose Style.</i> Clarendon Press, Oxford 1997.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Elizabeth_Craik" title="Elizabeth Craik">Elizabeth Craik</a> (Hrsg.): <i>Owls to Athens: Essays on Classical Culture Presented to Sir Kenneth Dover.</i> Oxford University Press, Oxford 1990.</li>
<li><a href="Donald_A._Russell" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald A. Russell">Donald A. Russell</a> and <a href="Stephen_Halliwell" title="Stephen Halliwell">Stephen Halliwell</a>: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.academia.edu/2581199/Kenneth_James_Dover_1920-2010">Kenneth James Dover 1920–2010</a>.</i> In: <i>Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy</i> 11, 2012, 153–175, (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/1470/11_06-Kenneth_Dover.pdf">Digitalisat</a>).</li>
<li>Stephen Halliwell: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.academia.edu/2581374/Kenneth_Dover_and_the_Greeks">Kenneth Dover and the Greeks</a>.</i> Memorial lecture given under the auspices of the Hellenic Society on April 4th 2011 in the Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, London.</li>
<li>Stephen Halliwell, <a href="Christopher_Stray" title="Christopher Stray">Christopher Stray</a> (Hrsg.): <i>Scholarship and controversy: centenary essays on the life and work of Sir Kenneth Dover.</i> Bloomsbury Academic, London 2023.</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=118941615">Literatur von und über Kenneth Dover</a> im Katalog der <a href="Deutsche_Nationalbibliothek" title="Deutsche Nationalbibliothek">Deutschen Nationalbibliothek</a></li>
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</style><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100524093729/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7054392.ece">Nachruf auf Kenneth Dover in der <i>Times</i></a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> vom 24. Mai 2010 im <i><a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></i>) (englisch)</li>
<li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7400324/Sir-Kenneth-Dover.html">Sir Kenneth Dover</a>.</i> In: <i><a href="The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Telegraph</a></i>, 8 March 2010.</li>
<li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/sir-kenneth-dover-1-793918">Sir Kenneth Dover</a>.</i> In: <i><a href="The_Scotsman" title="The Scotsman">The Scotsman</a></i>, 8 March 2010.</li>
<li>Peter Stothard: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100505223652/https://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2010/03/kenneth-dover-de-mortuis-.html">Kenneth Dover de mortuis</a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> vom 5. Mai 2010 im </i><a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a><i>).</i> In: <a href="The_Times_Literary_Supplement" title="The Times Literary Supplement">The Times Literary Supplement</a> blog, 9 March 2010.</li>
<li>Peter Jones: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/5831778/greek-sex-infallible-logic-and-fearless-honesty/">Greek sex, infallible logic and fearless honesty</a>.</i> In: <i><a href="The_Spectator_(Zeitung)" title="The Spectator (Zeitung)">The Spectator</a></i> 10 March 2010.</li>
<li>Margalit Fox: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/books/14dover.html?_r=0">Kenneth Dover, a Provocative Scholar of Ancient Greek Literature, Dies at 89.</a></i> In: <i>The New York Times</i>, March 13, 2010.</li>
<li>Matthew Reisz: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/people/obituaries/sir-kenneth-dover-1920-2010/410840.article">Sir Kenneth Dover, 1920–2010</a>.</i> In: <i><a href="Times_Higher_Education" title="Times Higher Education">Times Higher Education</a></i>, 18 March 2010.</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dwc.knaw.nl/en/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00013774"><i>Past Members: Sir Kenneth James Dover.</i></a> Königlich Niederländische Akademie der Wissenschaften,<span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 25. April 2023</span>.</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AKenneth+Dover&rft.title=Past+Members%3A+Sir+Kenneth+James+Dover&rft.description=Past+Members%3A+Sir+Kenneth+James+Dover&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdwc.knaw.nl%2Fen%2Fbiografie%2Fpmknaw%2F%3Fpagetype%3DauthorDetail%26aId%3DPE00013774&rft.publisher=K%C3%B6niglich+Niederl%C3%A4ndische+Akademie+der+Wissenschaften"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Dover_Kenneth">Eintrag</a> auf der Internetseite der Academia Europaea</span>
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