Product Description: "The Clouds" is a comedy written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes lampooning intellectual fashions in classical Athens. "The Clouds" was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC and it was not well received, coming last of the three plays competing at the festival that year...read more

Product Description: Book VI of Thucydides deals, through its speeches in particular, with Athenian motivation towards sending the great expedition to Sicily, with the attitudes of various factions involved, and with the seeds of the expedition's ultimate disastrous conclusion...read more

Product Description: This historical survey covers the period from 700 BC to AD 550, tracing the development of Greek literature by concentrating on the works of the principal authors of each period--including Homer, Plato, Aristophanes, and Euripides--and illustrating general points with passages from their work in translation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: To what extent and in what ways was homosexuality approved by the ancient Greeks? An eminent classicist examines the evidence--vase paintings, archaic and classical poetry, the dialogues of Plato, speeches in the law courts, the comedies of Aristophanes--and reaches provocative conclusions...read more

Product Description: "A classic. It provides an invaluable aid to anyone seeking to understand Plato and Aristotle in their historical context. Dover uses a variety of literary sources to set out, with clarity and deep sensitivity, popular views on moral, political, and religious matters in fourth-century Greece...read more

Product Description: The influence of a culture on later cultures, however pervasive it may be, often passes unnoticed. There is however a different kind of influence which operates at conscious level and depends on what the individual believes about the past, no matter how inadequate or distorted that belief may be...read more

Product Description: This selection of the poems of Theocritus illustrates his creative genius and rare powers of observation. Dover's introduction and notes offer insights into both the writing and the life and times of the poet.

Product Description: This work continues and completes the collection of Sir Kenneth Dover's contributions to Greek studies by bringing together articles on: Greek prose literature and history; the transmission of Greek texts in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages; and the contribution of Greeks to British culture...read more

Product Description: This book contains the majority of Sir Kenneth Dover's published articles on the Greek language and Greek poetry, including styles and registers in Greek, Archilochus, aspects of tragedy and the comic techniques of Aristophanes. Over the last 40 years his contributions to the study of Greek language and history have ranged from a study of Greek word order to analyses of Greek morality and sexuality...read more

Product Description: Greek text with introduction and commentary

Product Description: The ancient Greek orator Lysias left to the world a body of speeches that have been appreciated for their excellent language and the light they throw upon fourth-century Athens. Classical scholar Kenneth Dover shares his insights into these works in this collection of lectures given at Berkeley in the Sather Classical Lectures series...read more