Ethics and Rhetoric
Subtitle: Classical Essays for Donald Russell on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday
Contributors: Doreen C. Innes (Editor); Harry Hine (Editor); Christopher Pelling (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 21, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780198149620
Description: 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.