| Kenneth Dover  AKA Kenneth James Dover
Born: 11-Mar-1920
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 7-Mar-2010
Location of death: Cupar, Scotland
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Scholar Nationality: England
Executive summary: Greek Homosexuality Military service: British Army (WWII, 1941-44) Father: Percy Dover (civil servant)
Mother: Dorothy Healey
Wife: Audrey Latimer (m. 1947, d. Dec-2009, one son, one daughter)
Son: Alan
Daughter: Catherine
High School: St Paul's School, London, England
University: Classics, Balliol College, Oxford University
Teacher: Fellow, Greek, Balliol College, Oxford University (1948-55)
Professor: Greek, University of St. Andrews (1955-76)
Administrator: President, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University (1976-86)
Administrator: Chancellor, University of St. Andrews (1981-2005)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
British Academy President (1978-81)
British Academy Fellow (1966)
Royal Society of Edinburgh 1975
Knight of the British Empire 1977
Author of books:
Aristophanic Comedy (1972)
Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle (1974, classics)
Greek Homosexuality (1978, classics)
Greek Word Order (1960, classics)
The Greeks and their Legacy (1989, classics)
Marginal Comment (1994, memoir)
The Evolution of Greek Prose Style (1997, classics)
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