Ethics and Rhetoric Classical Essays for Donald Russell on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday
by Innes, Doreen C.; Hine, Harry; Pelling, ChristopherFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1995-12-21
Publisher(s): Clarendon Press
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. v |
| Envoi: Valedictory on Donald Russell's retirement Oxford, 3 June 1988 | p. xi |
| Publications Ofdonald Russell | p. xiv |
| Alatin, From The Ciceronianage Onwards | p. 1 |
| From Epos to Cosmos: Lucretius, Ovid, and the Poetics of Segmentation | p. 3 |
| Authorial Rhetoric in Virgil's Georgics | p. 19 |
| Friendship and its Problems in Greek and Roman Thought | p. 31 |
| Poetry, Philosophy, and Letter-Writing in Horace, Epistles I | p. 47 |
| Ovid and the Failure of Rhetoric | p. 63 |
| Ut ornatius et uberius dici posset: Morals into Epigram in the Elder Seneca | p. 75 |
| Seneca, Stoicism, and the Problem of Moral Evil | p. 93 |
| Rhetoric as a Protreptic Force in Seneca's Prose Works | p. 107 |
| Burning the Brambles: Rhetoric and Ideology in Pliny, Natural History 18 (1-24) | p. 117 |
| On the Sacking of Carthage and Corinth | p. 133 |
| Reflections on Ekphrasis in Ausonius and Prudentius | p. 149 |
| Blater Greek Literature | p. 161 |
| Sense of Place in the Orations of Dio Chrysostom | p. 163 |
| Dio Chrysostom, Greece, and Rome | p. 177 |
| The Poetics of the Paraphthegma Aelius Aristides and the Decorum of Self-Praise | p. 193 |
| The Moralism of Plutarch's Lives | p. 205 |
| 16'Subject to the Erotic': Male Sexual Behaviourin Plutarch | p. 221 |
| Lucian's Choice: Somnium 6-16 | p. 237 |
| Apollonius in Wonderland | p. 251 |
| Female Characterization in Greek Declamation | p. 255 |
| Names and a Gem: Aspects of Allusion in Heliodorus' Aethiopica | p. 269 |
| ¿¿¿¿¿&U1F77¿¿¿¿¿¿ as a Medical Term and a Conjecture in the Cyranides | p. 281 |
| Julian and Marcus Aurelius | p. 287 |
| Cancient Literary Criticism | p. 299 |
| Criticism Ancient and Modern | p. 301 |
| Longinus, Sublimity, and the Low Emotions | p. 323 |
| 'Longinus' and the Grandeur of God | p. 335 |
| Phantasia and Analogia in Proclus | p. 343 |
| Bibliography | p. 352 |
| Index Of Names | p. 369 |
| Index Of Ethical, Rhetoricaland Critical Concepts | p. 377 |
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