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George A. Kennedy (classicist)
American classicist

George A. Kennedy (classicist)

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American classicist
A.K.A.
George Alexander Kennedy
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Place of birth
Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Age
96 years
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Biography

George Alexander Kennedy (born 1928) is a contemporary scholar of classical rhetoric and literature.

Kennedy received his Ph.D. in classics from Harvard University in 1954 with a dissertation entitled "PROLEGOMENA AND COMMENTARY TO QUINTILIAN VIII (PR. & 1-3)". Kennedy taught classics, comparative literature, and rhetoric at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for twenty-eight years. He retired as George L. Paddison professor of classics. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1959. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. Under President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan, Kennedy served on the National Council on the Humanities and was also president of the American Philological Association and of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric.

Kennedy has also been the editor of the American Journal of Philology.

Major publications

  • 1989-2013. The Cambridge history of literary criticism. Cambridge University Press.
  • 1994. A new history of classical rhetoricĀ : with additional discussion of late Latin rhetoric. Princeton University Press.
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