Donald Andrew Russell

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Donald Andrew Frank Moore Russell FBA (born October 13, 1920 - February 9, 2020 ) was a British classical scholar .

Life

After attending King's College School at Wimbledon , Russell studied Classics at Balliol College , Oxford . During the Second World War he served first in the Royal Corps of Signals (1941-1943), then in the Intelligence Corps (1943-1945). After acquiring the D.Litt. he was a Fellow and Tutor in Classics at St John's College from 1948 to 1988 . From 1952 to 1978 he was also a university lecturer in classical literature at the University of Oxford . In 1971 he was made a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1978 he was appointed reader, 1985 professor of classical literature at the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford. In 1981 he gave the JH Gray Lectures at the University of Cambridge . In 1985 he was a visiting professorship at the University of North Carolina , and from 1989 to 1991 at Stanford University . Since 1988 he has been an emeritus fellow at St John's College and continues to be active in research and teaching. In 2013 he celebrated his 65th anniversary as a fellow in the service of St John's College. Only two fellows have achieved seniority in the college's history. Even at the age of 93, he was still teaching Latin prose composition (language and style) courses for undergraduates.

Russell was since 1967 with the Renaissance historian Joy Russell, nee Joyceline Gledhill Dickinson (1919-1993), married.

Research priorities

Russell mainly worked on the philosophy of editions on Greek and Latin rhetoric ( Menander Rhetor , Dion Chrysostomos , Libanios and Quintilian as well as on the rhetorical form of declamation ), ethics ( Plutarch ) and literary theory ( Pseudo-Longinos , Plutarch, Pseudo-Herakleitos ' Homeric Problems ) of the imperial era and second sophistry . Most recently he worked on a translation of the Neoplatonic philosopher Aeneas of Gaza and the late antique bishop and church historian Zacharias of Mytilene .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Plutarch. Duckworth, London 1972; Scribner 1973.
  • Criticism in Antiquity. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles - Duckworth, London 1981, (online) .
  • Greek Declamation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1983, (online) .

Text editions and translations

  • (Ed.): Longinus On the Sublime. Edited with Introduction and Commentary by DA Russell. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1964.
  • (Transl.): Longinus On the Sublime. Translated by DA Russell. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1965.
  • (Ed., With Michael Winterbottom ): Ancient Literary Criticism. The Principal Texts in New Translations. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1972.
  • (Ed., Transl., With Nigel Guy Wilson ): Menander Rhetor. Edited with Translation and Commentary by DA Russell and NG Wilson. Duckworth, London 1981.
  • (Ed.): Anthology of Latin Prose. Compiled and Edited with an Introduction by DA Russell. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990.
  • (Ed.): Anthology of Greek Prose. Compiled and Edited with an Introduction by DA Russell. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1991. - Review by: Matthew R. Christ, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 01/03/09 .
  • (Ed.): Dio Chrysostom, Orations VII, XII, XXXVI. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992.
  • (Transl.): Plutarch: Selected Essays and Dialogues. Translated by DA Russell. Oxford University Press 1993.
  • (Translator): Aristotle: Poetics. Translated by Stephen Halliwell . Longinus: On the Sublime. Translated by WH Fyfe. Revised by Donald Russell. Demetrius: On Style. Translated by Doreen C. Innes, based on W. Rhys Roberts. Harvard University Press 1995 (Loeb Classical Library 199), (online) .
  • (Translator): Libanius: Imaginary Speeches. A Selection of Declamations Translated with Notes. Duckworth, London 1996.
  • (Ed., Transl.): Quintilian: The orator's education. Edited and translated by Donald A. Russell. Volume I: Books 1-2; Volume II: Books 3-5; Volume III: Books 6-8; Volume IV: Books 9-10; Volume V: Books 11-12. Harvard University Press 2001 (Loeb Classical Library 124, 125, 126, 127, 494)
  • (Ed., Transl., With David Konstan ): Heraclitus: Homeric problems. Edited and translated by Donald Andrew Russell and David Konstan. Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta 2005, (online) .
  • (Ed., With Richard Hunter ): Plutarch: How to Study Poetry. Cambridge University Press 2011, (online) . - Review by: David Sansone, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.11.56 ; Casper C. de Jonge, in: Mnemosyne 66 (2013) 501-503, (online) ; Diotima Papadi, in: The Classical Review 63, 2013, pp. 84-85, (online).
  • (Transl., With Sebastian Gertz, John Dillon ): Aeneas of Gaza: Theophrastus , with Zacharias of Mytilene: Ammonius. Translated by Sebastian Gertz, John Dillon, Donald Russell ( Ancient Commentators on Aristotle ), Bristol Classical Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1780932095 .
  • with Heinz-Günther Nesselrath : On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination. Synesius, De insomniis. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-16-152419-6 (Greek text largely based on the edition by Nicola Terzaghi , Rome 1944, as well as English translation and six essays)

Editorships

  • (Ed.): Antonine Literature. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990.

literature

  • Doreen Innes, Harry M. Hine, CBR Pelling (Eds.): Ethics and Rhetoric: Classical Essays for Donald Russell on His Seventy-fifth Birthday. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1995, (online) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary at St John's College, Oxford
personal data
SURNAME Russell, Donald Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Russell, Donald Andrew Frank Moore (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1920
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2020