Marginal Comment

Sir Kenneth Dover was Professor Emeritus of Greek at the University of St Andrews and President of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK. Among his many publications are Greek Homosexuality (reissued with forewords, Bloomsbury, 2016).Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow, University of Swansea, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Classics, University of London, UK. He is a leading authority on the history of classical scholarship. His publications include Remaking the Classics: Literature, Genre and Media in Britain, 1800-2000 (Bloomsbury 2007) A.E. Housman: Classical Scholar (Bloomsbury, 2009) and Classical Dictionaries: Past, Present and Future (Bloomsbury, 2010).Stephen Halliwell is Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of The Poetics of Aristotle: Translation and Commentary (Bloomsbury, 1987) and Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity (2008).

• List of Figures Editorial Foreword Introduction: The Conception and Reception of Marginal Comment(Stephen Halliwell) Preface Acknowledgements1. On Autobiography 2. Forebears 3. Escape Routes 1920–1932 4. Body and Soul 1926–1934 5. Exotica 1933– 6. Reconstitution 1935–1936 7. Transition 1936–1940 8. Intermission 1940–1945 9. Women, Children and Work 1940–1951 10. History, Comedy and Other Things 1949– 11. Migration 1951–1960 12. People and Power 1955–1966 13. Mind and Body 1958– 14. Plato and After 1962–1989 15. Tributaries 1962– 16. The Public 1964–1980 17. Fruition 1966–1968 18. Revolutions (Fringe) 1968–1975 19. Right and Wrong 1969–1983 20. Elevations 1970–1993 21. Dovers 1972–1982 22. College and University 1975–1986 23. Style 1977–1994 24. Excursions 1979–1984 25. The Blunt Affair 1979–1981 26. The Aston Affair 1980–1985 27. Admissions 1982–1984 28. Best Before 1983– 29. At Large 1984–1992 30. The Thatcher Affair 1985 31. A History Man 32. Epimetron 1994 Index

Lucid and epigrammatic ... this psychologically oriented memoir gives us a view of twentieth-century British university life and a glimpse into the heart of one of its leading figures.