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

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 in honour of Professor Donald Russell, former Professor of Classical Literature at Oxford.
Donald Russell, Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature at Oxford University, 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 worked closely with him. The essays 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.