Description: Latin Panegyric Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Roger Rees Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780199576722, 978-0199576722 Synopsis 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.
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Book Title: Latin Panegyric
Item Height: 217 mm
Item Width: 138 mm
Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Author: Roger Rees
Publication Name: Latin Panegyric
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 546 g
Number of Pages: 448 Pages
