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

, by Innes, Doreen C.; Hine, Harry; Pelling, Christopher

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ISBN: 9780198149620 | 019814962X
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Copyright: 12/21/1995

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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.

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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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