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    Homosexuality (1978), a key text on the subject. Kenneth Dover was born in London, the only child of Percy Dover and Dorothy Healey. He was educated at St Paul's...
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    American historian, author Kenneth Dougall (b. 1993), Australian football player Kenneth Dover (1920–2010), British academic Kenneth "K. K." Downing (b. 1951)...
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    Timarchus 1.19–20 Kenneth Dover (1978). Greek Homosexuality. United States: Harvard University Press. p. 20. ISBN 0674362616. Dover, Kenneth J. (1989). Greek...
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    flouted social conventions by assuming a passive sexual role according to Kenneth Dover, though this has been questioned by recent scholars. It is unclear how...
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    Companion to Archaic Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 91–92. Kenneth Dover, a pioneer in the study of Greek homosexuality, rejects the initiation...
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    to no physical evidence. Kenneth Dover first introduced the term "intercrural sex" in his 1978 book Greek Homosexuality. Dover used the term to refer to...
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  • Greek Homosexuality (book) (category Books by Kenneth Dover)
    book about homosexuality in ancient Greece by the classical scholar Kenneth Dover, in which the author uses archaic and classical archaeological and literary...
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    Greek Homosexuality, the first modern scholarly work on this topic, Kenneth Dover used the literal translation of the Greek word as an English word to...
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  • antiquity, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-8018-3385-X, p. 123 Kenneth Dover: Greek homosexuality. London 1978 David Cohen: A note on Aristophanes...
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    Frogs, Athens was defeated in a battle at sea, surrendering to Sparta. Kenneth Dover claims that the underlying political theme of The Frogs is essentially...
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    beauty of Achilles was a topic already broached at Iliad 2.673–674. Kenneth Dover, Greek Homosexuality (Harvard University Press, 1978, 1989), p. 1 et...
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    University of Strathclyde. He was the only person nominated to succeed Sir Kenneth Dover after he retired as Chancellor of the University of St Andrews on 1...
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  • is the shore of the English ferry port of Dover, in Kent, facing Calais, in France, at the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part (21 miles (34 km)) of the...
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  • 1938), British politician Eric Dover (born 1967), American musician Gabriel Dover (1937–2018), British geneticist Kenneth Dover (1920–2010), British academic;...
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  • of homosexuality in Ancient Greece, promoted by Michel Foucault and Kenneth Dover, according to which the male act of sexual penetration was seen as an...
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    to hold office for life, although Sir Kenneth Dover retired in 2005.: Section 2  With the exception of Dover, every Chancellor of the university has...
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  • credit for having it to the person whose beauty it happens to be.". Sir Kenneth Dover provides us with clarity over the question of beauty and praise, with...
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  • Xenophon were Athenians. According to the British classical scholar Sir Kenneth Dover, this was a clear allusion to the Sacred Band, reflecting Xenophon's...
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    significance of this position in Roman culture has been interpreted variously. Kenneth Dover thought it might represent the relative sexual emancipation of Roman...
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    which he was awarded in 1981. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Sir Kenneth Dover, was titled "Personal jokes in Aristophanes". Halliwell taught at the...
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    Society. He died in Dover, New Hampshire, on April 19, 2013, after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer in October 2012. Kenneth Appel was also the treasurer...
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  • only began in the 1970s, particularly following the publication of Kenneth Dover's Greek Homosexuality in 1978. This book helped to strip away many of...
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    Winter's Tale (2004) as Polixenes The Chief Inspector Dover Mysteries (2003) as Chief Inspector Dover His Dark Materials: Northern Lights (2003) as Farder...
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    Vaishnava Association. Archived from the original on 25 February 2017. Kenneth Dover, Greek Homosexuality (Harvard University Press, 1978, 1898), pp. 205–7...
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    Penguin, 1951. Plato, The Symposium, Greek text with commentary by Kenneth Dover. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. ISBN 0521295238. Plato...
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    Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Aristophanes, Frogs. Kenneth Dover (ed.) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), p. 2. Becker, Udo (January 2000)...
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  • Corpus Christi College, Oxford In office 1986–2000 Preceded by Sir Kenneth Dover Succeeded by Sir Tim Lankester Personal details Born Keith Vivian Thomas...
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    Denys Page President of the British Academy 1974–1978 Succeeded by Sir Kenneth Dover Awards Preceded by Octavio Paz Jerusalem Prize 1979 Succeeded by Graham...
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  • Greek pederasty is less illuminating than that of Kenneth Dover, despite Foucault's references to Dover's Greek Homosexuality (1978). The philosopher Roger...
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  • Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was a British actor and comedian. He was best known for his comedy roles and in later life...
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