Scrinium Classical Antiquity

DOVER, K., The Greeks. From the BBC television series by Chr. Burstall and K. Dover. BBC, London, 1980. 146p. Cloth wrps. With signature in pencil on free endpaper. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

DOVER, K., Marginal Comment. A memoir. Duckworth, London, 1994. VIII,271p. ills. Cloth wrps. Edges slightly stained. Nice copy. (Rare). 'For the most part the book’s outspokenness is an unambiguous strength. It gives the writing an edge; it helps to sustain one’s interest through all but a few dull patches (mostly the ones about university administration). The most valuable sections are naturally those that portray, warts and all, the world of classical scholarship, but there are scarcely less absorbing accounts of Dover’s childhood (South London suburbia, good-humored mother, father 'with the foulest temper of anyone I knew or have known since'), of his teenage fascination, which was fueled purely by his own reading, with the languages of the Western Pacific, and of his war service (anti-aircraft batteries) in North Africa and Italy. (...) With all its oddities and blemishes, Dover has written an excellent book. The sensational bits are what will inevitably attract readers first, and stay with most of them longest; but it still deserves to be judged - and recommended - as a whole.' (JOHN GROSS in The New Criterion, March 1995). € 100.00 (Antiquarian)

DOVER, K., (ed.)., E.L. BOWIE, J. GRIFFIN and M.L. WEST, Literatura en la Grecia antigua. Panorama del 700 (a. C.) al 500 (d.C.). Taurus, Madrid, 1986. 207p. 2 maps. Paperback. Pages little bit yellowed. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Traduccíon de F.J. Lomas. From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

DOVER, K.J. I Koomoodia tou Aristophani. Metaphrasi Ph.I. Kakridis. Morphootiko Idryma Ethnikis Trapezis, Athina, 1978. 349p. Sewn. Small personal library mark on tail spine as well as free endpaper. Name on free endpaper. From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

DOVER, K.J., Aristophanic Comedy. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles, 1972. XV,253p. Paperback. Name on free endpaper. 'Dover reconstructs Athenian public opinion to determine what attitudes and characters Aristophanes was able to exploit for comic effect. He supports his interpretations with evidence from drama, rhetoric, philosophy, history, art, and the law of Athens. (...) The book is so crammed with information (...) on all aspects of Greek life that one can almost imagine himself sitting in the theatre in Athens laughing at the same jokes as the rest of the audience. In the last chapter, Dover provides a classic justification for reading a dead author like Arisopheanes. 'The moral utility of reading the works of a dead author - and whether he died this morning or two thousand years ago makes no essential difference - lies, I suggest, not in the possibility of doing what he appears to recommend and refraining from what he appears to bofbid, but in two other directions. First by adding his experience to ours we can look through his eyes at elements of human life which are common to his culutre and ours, and can thus ctiticize and adjust our assumptions and attitudes, as we can also by understanding and absorbing the experience of contemporary individuals whose lives and environments differ from our own. Secondly, in so far as art is an aspect of our nature, on a par with exercise, religion,sex, and work, enjoying literautre is better than not enjoying it, and the effort to relive the intellectual and aesthetic proces through which an ancient dramatist gave a play its final form has some claim to be a self-rewarding activity.' (p.228). 'Aristophanic Comedy' has great value for anyone seeking enlightenment and entertainment, but it offers more to the classicist. It is a model for the theacher who hope to pass on his love and knowledge of Greek culture and his own certainty of its rewards.' (LOUIS SETTLER SPATZ in The Classical Journal, 1975,4, p.71). € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

DOVER, K.J., Greek Homosexuality. Vintage Books, NewYork, 1980. X,244p. ills. Paperback. Bit yellowed. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)

DOVER, K.J., Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum. University of California Press, Berkeley/LosAngeles, 1968. IX,200p. Cloth wrps. Series: Sather Classical Lectures, volume 39. Nice copy. The purpose of this book is to examine the extent to which, and the means by which, the work of the individual Lysias can be distinguished within the total corpus ascribed to him. One part of the examination is an attempt to reconstruct the entire process of transmission, from the making of the late Roman selection, through the internal arrangement of the corpus in the ancient editions, to the relation between client and consultant at the time of writing. The other part is an evaluation of criteria of authenticity: chronological, ideological, and stylistic. Chronological indications are commonly inadequate; the ideology of an individual in Lysias's time was probably more elastic than is sometimes supposed; and the extant speeches are too small for the application of simple stylometric tests. Allowance must also be made for the adjustment of the style of a speech to the personality of the client, and for the co-operation of the client in the composition of the speech. The conclusion of the book is that any demand for a clear division of the speeches into two categories, authentic and spurious, is unreasonable and methodologically unsound; we must content ourselves with degrees of probability and treat the corpus as presenting us not with an individual but with certain aspects of Athenian art and society. (Publisher's information). € 27.50 (Antiquarian)

DOVER, K.J., The Chorus of Initiates in Aristophanes' Frogs. Vandoeuvres, Genève, 1991. Offprint Aristophane. pp.173-201. Wireless. € 7.00 (Antiquarian)

DOVER, K.J., Homosexualidad Griega. Prólogo de Michel Foucault. Traducción de F. Martos y J.L. López Cruces. El Cobre Ediciones, Barcelona, 2008. 380p. ills. Paperback. Head spine little bit bumped. € 22.50 (Antiquarian)

DOVER, K.J., Greek Popular Morality. In the time of Plato and Aristotle. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles, 1974. XIX,330p. Hardbound. Cover a bit stained. Two red ink stains at upper edge overflowing some pages at the top. Pen and pencil markings and some annotations from KJD. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. 'It is by any standards an important contribution to our thinking about ancient Greek morality - and our own. Professor Dover's subject is 'Greek popular morality', not, that is, Greek moral philosophy, nor Greek values, in any wider sense. He defines 'popular morality' at the outset of his first chapter: 'It often happens that if I try to do as I wish I frustrate what someone else wishes. By the 'morality' of a culture I mean the principles, criteria and values which underlie its responses to this familiar experience. (...) Throughout the book, Professor Dover brings out the continuity of moral attitudes between speakers in the Athenian assembly and law-courts and the comic poets right through the period with which he is concerned (...), without ever losing sight of the range and variety of attitudes which can be and are expressed in response to the conflicting pressures of moral argument and interest.' (JOHN GOULD in The Classical Review (New Series), 1978, pp.285-86). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 59.50 (Antiquarian)