classical essays for Donald Russell on his seventy-fifth birthday /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Doreen Innes, Harry Hine, and Christopher Pelling.
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New York :
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Oxford University Press,
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1995.
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xvi, 378 pages :
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illustrations ;
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23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-368) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Envoi: Valedictory on Donald Russell's retirement / Robin Nisbet -- 1. From Epos to Cosmos: Lucretius, Ovid, and the Poetics of Segmentation / Don Fowler -- 2. Authorial Rhetoric in Virgil's Georgics / Richard Rutherford -- 3. Friendship and its Problems in Greek and Roman Thought / Jonathan Powell -- 4. Poetry, Philosophy, and Letter-Writing in Horace, Epistles I / Stephen Harrison -- 5. Ovid and the Failure of Rhetoric / Richard Tarrant -- 6. Ut ornatius et uberius dici posset: Morals into Epigram in the Elder Seneca / Graham Anderson -- 7. Seneca, Stoicism, and the Problem of Moral Evil / Harry Hine -- 8. Rhetoric as a Protreptic Force in Seneca's Prose Works / Desmond Costa -- 9. Burning the Brambles: Rhetoric and Ideology in Pliny, Natural History 18 (1-24) / Mary Beagon -- 10. On the Sacking of Carthage and Corinth / Nicholas Purcell -- 11. Reflections on Ekphrasis in Ausonius and Prudentius / Anna Wilson.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.