Kenneth Dover was the finest English-speaking classicist of his generation, and I have long been grateful for his many excellent commentaries as well as his other work. A few nice obituaries can be found here at the Times Online, as well as here on the Guardian’s website. (I like the Guardian obit better, but that’s just me.)
My partner Jack used to say of men of this stripe, those who lived into active and productive old age not resting on the laurels of their prime, but continuing their work right up to their deaths, and those who seem in photographs to be engaging, interesting people with an endearing openness about their features, that they were “smashing old geezers”. There was no higher praise in his book–and I think that K.J. Dover was just such a man.
