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SUMMARY:Donald Russell Memorial Lecture 2026
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DESCRIPTION:Professor Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway\, University of London
 )\, 'Saying it in Style: Some Uses of Rhetoric by Platonist Philosophers i
 n Late Antiquity'.\n\nThe philosophers of the fourth\, fifth and sixth cen
 turies AD were well educated in rhetoric and made good use of what they ha
 d learned in the rhetorical schools\, both in their commentaries on Plato 
 and in other forms of writing. The first part of the lecture will focus on
  how Proclus and his contemporary\, Hermias of Alexandria\, deploy the the
 ory of three styles\, as an example of their use of tools drawn from the r
 hetorical tradition of literary criticism. The second part will consider t
 he influence of rhetoric on the writing of encomia by Synesius and by Proc
 lus’ pupil\, Marinus\, on the composition of hymns by Synesius and Procl
 us\, and on the writing of a Platonic dialogue by Aeneas of Gaza.\n\nProfe
 ssor Anne Sheppard is Professor Emerita of Ancient Philosophy at Royal Hol
 loway\, University of London. She wrote her DPhil on Proclus under the sup
 ervision of Donald Russell. Her publications include Studies on the 5th an
 d 6th essays of Proclus’ Commentary on the Republic (1980)\, Aesthetics.
  An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (1987)\, Greek and Roman Aesthet
 ics (with Oleg Bychkov\, 2010)\, The Poetics of Phantasia. Imagination in 
 Ancient Aesthetics (2014) and Plotinus. Ennead I.8. On the Nature and Sour
 ce of Evil (2025)
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LOCATION:St John's College - Garden Quad Auditorium\, Garden Quad Auditori
 um Auditorium St John's College Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3JP United Kingdom
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