With a full introduction, and with four essays translated into English, this volume plots the narratives of Roman praise and gives students of classical literature and rhetoric direct access to key scholarship.
With a full introduction, and with four essays translated into English, this volume plots the narratives of Roman praise and gives students of classic...
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...
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-...
