To what extent and in what ways was homosexuality approved by the ancient Greeks?

It consists of an introduction, the Greek text accompanied by a very abbreviated critical apparatus, and a commentary on the text which is intended to elucidate the Greek, to make the philosophical argument intelligible, and to relate the ...

While for the latter we have Plato and Aristotle, this insightful work explores the everyday moral conceptions to which orators appealed in court and political assemblies, and which were reflected in non-philosophical literature.

He succeeded in this effort by making people laugh, and the book pays more attention than has generally been paid to the technical means, whether of language or of situation, on which Aristophanes' humor depends.

" In this book, Kenneth Dover introduces the people and culture of ancient Greece.

Four experts have come together to write this exciting new historical survey of Greek literature from 700 B.C. to 550 A.D. The book concentrates on the principal authors of poetry, tragedy, comedy, history, science, philosophy, and oratory ...

This edition incorporates his additions and corrections to the first edition of 1934, and it includes indexes of combinations and references by K. J. Dover.

In this seventieth-birthday tribute to renowned Greek scholar Sir Kenneth Dover, a diverse group of his former pupils and colleagues contribute a selection of essays, on topics ranging from drama and poetry to history, society, art, ...

The transmission of literature in writing began in the Greek world with poetry; the publication of laws and regulations came later, and prose literature last, about 500 BC. This book examines the stages by which prose was turned into the ...