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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 focussing 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.
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 focussing 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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introductions
1: R.D. Rees: The Modern History of Latin Panegyric
2: R.A.B. Mynors and translated by R.D. Rees.: Preface to the OCT
edition of the XII Panegyrici Latini
3: R. Pichon and translated by R.D. Rees: The Origin of the
Panegyrici Latini Collection
Pliny's Panegyricus
4: B. Radice: Pliny and the Panegyricus
5: S. Morton Braund: Praise and Protreptic in Early Imperial
Panegyric
6: E. Fantham: Two Levels of Orality in the Genesis of Pliny's
Panegyricus
7: M.P.O. Morford: iubes esse liberos: Pliny's Panegyricus and
Liberty
8: S. Bartsch: The Art of Sincerity: Pliny's Panegyricus
9: Divine Comedya Accession propaganda in Pliny, Epistles 10.1-2
and the Panegyric
The Gallic Panegyrics
10: C.E.V. Nixon: Latin Panegyric in the Tetrarchic and
Constantinian Period
11: S. MacCormack: Latin Prose Panegyrics
12: E. Vereeke and translated by R.D. Rees: The Corpus of Latin
Panegyrics from Late Antiquity: Problems of Imitation
13: W.S. Maguinness: Locutions and Formulae of the Latin
Panegyrist
14: B. Saylor Rodgers: Divine Insinuation in the Panegyrici
Latini
15: B.H. Warmington: Aspects of Constantinian Propaganda in the
Panegyrici Latini
16: R. Blockley: The Panegyric of Claudius Mamertinus on the
Emperor Julian
17: A. Lippold and translated by D. Richardson: The Ideal of the
Ruler and Attachment to tradition in Pacatus Panegyric
Bibliography
Roger Rees is Reader in Latin at St Andrews University.
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