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Born October 13, 1920, in London, England; died February 9, 2020; son of Samuel Charles and Laura Russell; married Joycelyne Gledhill Dickinson, 1967.
EDUCATION:Balliol College, Oxford, M.A. (with first class honors), 1946.
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Writer and educator. Oxford University, Oxford, England, lecturer at Christ Church, 1947, fellow of St. John’s College, 1948-88, classical literature lecturer, 1952-78, dean, 1957-64, reader in classical literature, 1978-85, became professor of classical literature, until 1988, emeritus professor of classical literature, 1988-2020. University of North Carolina, visiting professor, 1985; Stanford University, visiting professor, 1989-91.
MIILITARY:British Army, Royal Signals and Intelligence Corps, 1941-45.
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Contributor of articles and reviews to classical journals. Co-editor of Classical Quarterly, 1965-70. Contributor to other books, including On the Daimonion of Socrates: Human Liberation, Divine Guidance, and Philosophy and In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns.
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Donald Andrew Frank Moore Russell was a British academic and classicist. Born in London, on October 13, 1920, he began studying at Balliol College before being called off to war. Russell was a member of the Royal Corps of Signals from 1941 to 1943 before joining the Intelligence Corps at Bletchley Park until 1945.
He resumed his studies after the end of World War II and served as a fellow in classics from 1948 until 1988 at Oxford’s St John’s College. He lectured in classical literature at Oxford from 1952 to 1978. From then until 1985, he additionally served at St John’s as a reader in classical literature and then as a professor of classical literature until his retirement in 1988. Russell became an emeritus professor of classical literature and a fellow at the college until his death in 2020. This seventy-two-year tenure as a fellow made him the longest serving tutorial fellow in the history of the college.
In addition to his work at Oxford, Russell also served as a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina in 1985. From 1989 until 1991, he was also a visiting professor at Stanford University. Russell delivered the J.H. Gray Lectures at Cambridge University in 1981.
Russell’s primary academic research interests in the classics centered on Greek imperial literature, Latin imperial prose, and ancient literary criticism, with a particular emphasis on rhetoric. On these topics, he published widely across books, edited collections, and academic journals. Among his solo-authored books are 1973’s Plutarch, 1981’s Criticism in Antiquity, and Greek Declamation in 1984. Russell has also edited and contributed to a number of academic books, including Antonine Literature, An Anthology of Latin Prose, An Anthology of Greek Prose, and his first book, ‘Longinus’ on the Sublime in 1964.
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St. John’s College, Oxford website, https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/ (March 18, 2020), “Professor Donald Russell FBA.”
Donald Russell (classicist)
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Donald Russell
Born 13 October 1920
Died 9 February 2020 (aged 99)
Occupation academic
Genre Classical literature
Donald Andrew Frank Moore Russell, FBA (13 October 1920 – 9 February 2020) was a British classicist and academic. He was Professor of Classical Literature at the University of Oxford between 1985 and 1988, and a Fellow and tutor of classics at St John's College, Oxford, from 1948 to 1988: he was an Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow.[1] Russell died in February 2020 at the age of 99.[2]
Career
Russell served in the British Army during the Second World War: first in the Royal Corps of Signals from 1941 to 1943, then in the Intelligence Corps from 1943 to 1945.[3]
From 1948 to 1988, he was a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, of which he was subsequently an emeritus fellow. As of October 2013, Russell was just the third fellow in the history of St John's to have reached the 65 year anniversary milestone of his election to the fellowship.[4] From 1952 to 1978, he was a university lecturer in classical literature at the University of Oxford. He was Reader in Classical Literature from 1978 to 1985, and Professor of Classical Literature from 1985 to 1988.[1]
In 1981, he delivered the J H Gray Lectures at the University of Cambridge. He was a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina in 1985 and from 1989 to 1991, a visiting professor at Stanford University.[1]
Published works
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Russell, Donald (1964). Longinus On the Sublime, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Russell, Donald (1972). Plutarch, London: Duckworth
Russell, Donald; and M Winterbottom (1972). Ancient Literary Criticism, Oxford University Press
Russell, Donald (1981). Criticism in Antiquity, London: Duckworth
Russell, Donald; and N G Wilson (1981). Menander Rhetor, London: Duckworth
Russell, Donald (1983). Greek Declamation, Cambridge University Press
Russell, Donald (1990). Anthology of Latin Prose, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Russell, Donald (1991). Anthology of Greek Prose, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Russell, Donald (1992). Dio Chrysostom, Orations 7, 12, 36, Cambridge University Press
Russell, Donald (1993). Plutarch: Selected Essays and Dialogues, Oxford University Press
Russell, Donald (1996). Libanius: Imaginary Speeches, London: Duckworth
Russell, Donald (2001). Quintilian: The orator’s education (Loeb Translation), Harvard University Press
Russell, Donald; and D Konstan (2005). Heraclitus: Homeric problems, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature
Russell, Donald; and R Hunter (2011). Plutarch: How to Study Poetry, Cambridge University Press
Russell, Donald; Dillon, J and Gertz, S. (forthcoming) 'Aeneas of Gaza: Theophrastus with Zacharias of Mytilene: Ammonius (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)', Bristol Classical Press. 978-1780932095