Saturday, March 30, 2024
More Familiar and More Intelligible
Stephen Halliwell, "Dover and the Public Face of Classics," in Stephen Halliwell and Christopher Stray, edd., Scholarship and Controversy: Centenary Essays on the Life and Work of Sir Kenneth Dover (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), pp. 291-308 (p. 302, with note on p. 312):
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In a talk he gave in St Andrews in 2000 at a celebration of his 80th birthday, he remarked, in that same lightly ironic manner, that 'Personally I find [the Sophoclean] Ajax much more familiar and more intelligible than, say, Cardinal Newman.'49
49. From a copy of Dover's typescript in my possession.
