| 1 | Name: | Dr. George A. Kennedy | |
| Institution: | University of North Carolina | ||
| Year Elected: | 1984 | ||
| Class: | 4. Humanities | ||
| Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1928 | ||
| Death Date: | July 28, 2022 | ||
George A. Kennedy taught classics and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill for thirty years. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1954 and taught at Harvard, Haverford College and the University of Pittsburgh before being named Paddison Professor of Classics (now Emeritus) at UNC in 1972. Dr. Kennedy is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and has served as a member of the National Humanities Council and as president of the American Philological Association and the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. He is author of 13 books on the history of rhetoric and literary criticism, including The Art of Persuasion in Greece (1963), Art and Rhetoric in the Roman World (1972) and Classical Rhetoric and its Christian and Secular Tradition (1980). He is a widely recognized authority on the arts of persuasion in the classical world and on the style of Greek, Latin and early Christian literature. | |||