Ethics and Rhetoric: Classical Essays for Donald Russell on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019814962X ISBN 13: 9780198149620

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1995

Synopsis

This is a collection of new essays on the theme of ethics and rhetoric in classical literature by an extremely prestigious array of scholars from the UK, US, and Europe. Writing in honor of Professor Donald Russell, former Professor of Classical Literature at Oxford, the contributors look at issues of ethics and rhetoric within Latin literature, Greek imperial literature, and ancient literary criticism.

About this title

About the Author

Doreen C. Innes is at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Harry Hine is at University of St Andrews.

From the Back Cover

Donald Russell, Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature at the University of Oxford, has been a leading figure in several fields of classical scholarship over the last few decades. The present volume collects essays written in his honour by scholars who have all worked closely with him. They fall into three sections, corresponding to Donald Russell's main work: Latin literature, Greek imperial literature, and ancient literary criticism. They are unified by two of Russell's own pervasive concerns: ethics, the concern of classical literature with moral conduct, and rhetoric, the techniques of effective persuasion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019814962X
• ISBN 13: 9780198149620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396
• Editor: Innes Doreen C., Hine Harry, Pelling Christopher