Sir Kenneth Dover, now Chancellor of the University of St Andrews, is an outstanding Greek scholar of international reputation. Among his many publications are books on Greek homosexuality and popular morality, and magisterial editions of Thucydides and Aristophanes. Former pupils and colleagues, themselves distinguished scholars (including Emeritus Professors A. Andrewes, I. G. Kidd, Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, D. A. Russell; Professors P. Barron, D. M. Lewis, D. M. MacDowell, R. G. M. Nisbet, M. L. West; and many others) have contributed to this seventieth-birthday tribute, on topics ranging from dramatic and other poetry to history, society, art, language, metre and rhythm, and texts and scholars.
This volume contains essays on Greek literature, especially Old Comedy, contributed by Sir Kenneth Dover's colleagues and former pupils in honour of his 70th birthday.
