Kenneth Dover#

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Positions held

Kenneth Dover passed away March 10, 2010.

• 1981 - 2005 Chancellor of the University of St Andrews
• 1976 - 1986 President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
• 1955 - 1976 Professor of Greek at St. Andrews, twice Dean of the Faculty of Arts

Fields of Scholarship

• Greek linguistics
• Greek history
• Greek drama
• Greek oratory

Honours and Awards

• 1966 Fellow of the British Academy, 1978 - 1981 President
• 1975 Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Foreign Member of the American and the Royal Netherlands Academies of Arts and Sciences
• 1977 Knighthood for services to Greek scholarship
• Recipient of honorary degrees from the Universities of Oxford, St Andrews, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Durham, Liverpool, and Oglethorpe