Robert J Penella

Biographic Data

ID1012358
NAMERobert J Penella
GIVEN NAMESRobert J
FAMILY NAMEPenella
SIGNATUREPENELLA R J
AFFILIATIONSFordham University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS53
TOTAL CITATIONS47
WORKS AS AUTHOR50
WORKS AS EDITOR3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • Libanius: Ten Mythological and Historical Declamations

    Open AccessRobert J PenellaEDITORBOOKLibanius2020

    This book offers translations of ten rhetorical declamations of the fourth-century AD sophist Libanius of Antioch and some related texts, almost all appearing for the first time in a modern language. In these works the declaimer impersonates such mythological or historical figures as Poseidon, Paris, Achilles, and Orestes, either in court (as prosecutor or defendant) or by trying to persuade his audience to take a course of action. The texts illu…

  • Libanius

    Robert J PenellaBOOKLibanius2020

  • The rhetorical works of the school of Gaza

    Robert J PenellaARTICLEByzantinische Zeitschrift2020

    This paper surveys the rhetorical works of the so-called School of Gaza of the late fifth and early sixth centuries in light of the recent wave of scholarship on the School. It focuses on themes, rhetorical genres, and structural features. The Gazan repertoire includes “real life” orations, declamations, dialexeis, progymnasmatic pieces, and oratorical paratexts such as preliminary dialexeis and protheōriai. The paper seeks to provide a map to th…

  • Man and the Word

    Himerius Himerius, Robert J PenellaEDITORBOOKMan and the Word2019

    This fully annotated volume offers the first English translation of the orations of Himerius of Athens, a prominent teacher of rhetoric in the fourth century A.D. Man and the Word contains 79 surviving orations and fragments of orations in the grand tradition of imperial Greek rhetoric. The speeches, a rich source on the intellectual life of late antiquity, capture the flavor of student life in Athens, illuminate relations in the educated communi…

  • The Fathers of the Emperors Caligula and Claudius in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars

    Robert J Penella, Penella et al.ARTICLEPhoenix2018

    Suetonius' lives of Caligula and Claudius begin with laudatory and long accounts of their fathers, implicitly contrasting them to their bad and flawed sons, respectively. Readers will have concluded that these fathers would have made better emperors than their sons— and that sons are not necessarily good successors to good fathers

  • Themistius, Julian, and Greek Political Theory under Rome

    Robert J PenellaARTICLEThe Classical World2015

    Reviewed by: Themistius, Julian, and Greek Political Theory under Rome: Texts, Translations, and Studies of Four Key Works by Simon Swain Robert J. Penella Simon Swain. Themistius, Julian, and Greek Political Theory under Rome: Texts, Translations, and Studies of Four Key Works. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. vi, 224. $95.00. ISBN 978–1-107–02657–5. Simon Swain is that rara avis, a Hellenist who commands Arabic. In the book unde…

  • Koddaroi and Xurēsitauroi in the letters of Apollonius of Tyana

    Robert J PenellaARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies2015

    Among the letters of the sage Apollonius of Tyana, of the first century CE, are eight that berate the Sardians for their civil strife. Two of the letters refer to two Sardian groups that are at odds with one another, the Koddaroi and the Xurēsitauroi . At the core of this article is an etymological argument that Koddaroi means 'the foreskinned', and that Xurēsitauroi , from two Greek words meaning 'shaving' and 'genitals', refers not to depilatio…

  • Plato (and Others) in the Orations of Themistius

    Open AccessRobert J PenellaCHAPTERPlato in the Third Sophistic2014

  • Two Notes on Himerius

    Robert J PenellaARTICLEMnemosyne2012

  • Libanius the Flatterer

    Open AccessRobert J PenellaARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2012

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  • Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography

    Arnaldo Momigliano, Karl Christ et al.BOOKEssays in ancient and modern…2012Cited by: 27

    One of the most significant controversies in the history of biology is that dealing with the theories of the origin of life.Do all organisms arise from organisms or can life be generated spontaneously?These questions have been asked for centuries.Involving, as they do, religious and metaphysical beliefs, the resultant arguments have been heated and prolonged.Professor Farley disputes the usual idea that the debate in England, France, and Germany …

  • The Progymnasmata in Imperial Greek Education

    Robert J PenellaARTICLEThe Classical World2011Cited by: 5References: 3

    The progymnasmata were graded prose compositional exercises, often begun under the grammarian and continued under the sophist or rhetor. They were preliminary to exercises in declamation. This paper examines their content and role in education in the Roman Empire. Considerable attention is paid to their discussion in theoretical treatises, almost entirely in Greek. Appreciation of these modes of discourse is important to the student of antiquity,…

  • Hellenism in Byzantium

    Robert J PenellaARTICLEThe Classical World2010

    Reviewed by: Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition Robert J. Penella Anthony Kaldellis. Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 468. $119.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87688-9 Anthony Kaldellis's book is about the problem of Hellenism in Byzantine self-identity. Part 1 (…

  • Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity

    Open AccessChoricius Choricius, Eugenio Amato et al.EDITORBOOKRhetorical Exercises from Late…2009

    The first translation, produced by a team of eight scholars, of the Declamations and Preliminary Talks of the sixth-century sophist Choricius of Gaza. Declamations, deliberative or judicial orations on fictitious themes, were the fundamental advanced exercises of the rhetorical schools of the Roman Empire, of interest also to audiences outside the schools. Some of Choricius' declamations are on generic themes (e.g. a tyrannicide, a war-hero), whi…

  • Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity

    Choricius Choricius, Choricius of Gaza et al.BOOKPreliminary talks and declamations2009References: 16

    The first translation, produced by a team of eight scholars, of the Declamations and Preliminary Talks of the sixth-century sophist Choricius of Gaza. Declamations, deliberative or judicial orations on fictitious themes, were the fundamental advanced exercises of the rhetorical schools of the Roman Empire, of interest also to audiences outside the schools. Some of Choricius' declamations are on generic themes (e.g. a tyrannicide, a war-hero), whi…

  • Himerios. Reden und Fragmente

    Robert J PenellaARTICLEThe Classical World2005

  • Layers of Loyalty in Latin Panegyric A.D. 289-307

    Robert J Penella, Roger ReesARTICLEThe Classical World2004

  • Being Greek under Rome

    Robert J Penella, Simon Goldhill et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World2004

  • The Ambitio of Livy’s Tarquinius Priscus

    Open AccessRobert J PenellaARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2004

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  • Publikum und Redner

    Robert J Penella, Martin KorenjakARTICLEThe Classical World2002

  • Bildung und Macht

    Robert J PenellaREVIEWThe Classical World2001

  • The Rhetoric of Praise in the Private Orations of Themistius

    Robert J PenellaCHAPTERGreek biography and panegyric in…2000

    This chapter analyzes the private orations of Themistius, focusing on his rhetoric of praise. It highlights Themistius' belief that the truths of philosophy need to be broadcast widely and that rhetoric was the chief instrument for accomplishing this. It stresses the need to accept the fact that panegyrics were a fact of life in the fourth century in order to better appreciate the many uses to which ancient orators could put the rhetoric of prais…

  • Galen, On Antecedent Causes

    Robert J Penella, Philosophy Documentation CenterARTICLEInternational Philosophical…2000

  • Canons of Style in the Antonine Age

    Robert J Penella, Ian RutherfordARTICLEThe Classical World2000

  • The Development of Greek Biography

    Robert J PenellaREVIEWThe Classical World1996