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Latin Panegyric (Paperback)
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Latin Panegyric (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
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What was Roman political praise for and what could it achieve?
Could it have literary merit? What do the surviving examples of
Roman political praise-giving reveal about the circumstances and
milieu in which they originated?
Latin Panegyric brings together sixteen essays focusing on praise
in the Roman Empire and, in particular, on praise of the emperor.
Spanning a century of scholarship, and constituting landmark
studies on different aspects of the largest collection of classical
Latin oratory to survive after Cicero--the Panegyrici Latini--this
collection includes speeches addressed to the emperors Trajan,
Maximian, Constantine, Julian, and Theodosius, and traces three
centuries of oratorical praise-giving in the Roman world. These
influential readings consider textual, rhetorical, literary,
political, and religious matters, and together represent the
evolving landscape of academic attitudes towards praise discourse,
with its strengths and problems, and towards some of the best-known
Roman emperors. With a full introduction by the editor, and with
four essays translated into English for the first time, this
valuable volume plots the narratives of Roman praise and gives
students of classical literature, history, and rhetoric direct
access to key scholarship.
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