Latin Panegyric

by Roger Rees (Editor)

Overview

Latin Panegyric represents modern readings on the collection of classical Latin oratory addressed to Roman emperors. With a full introduction, and with four essays translated into English for the first time, the volume plots the narratives of Roman praise and gives students of classical literature and rhetoric direct access to key scholarship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199576715
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/04/2012
Series:	Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Roger Rees is Reader in Latin at St Andrews University.

Table of Contents

Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductions1. The Modern History of Latin Panegyric, R.D. Rees2 Preface to the OCT edition of the iXII Panegyrici Latini/i, R.A.B. Mynors and translated by R.D. Rees.3. The Origin of the iPanegyrici Latini/i Collection, R. Pichon and translated by R.D. ReesPliny's iPanegyricus/i4. Pliny and the Panegyricus, B. Radice5. Praise and Protreptic in Early Imperial Panegyric, S. Morton Braund6. Two Levels of Orality in the Genesis of Pliny's iPanegyricus/i, E. Fantham7. iiubes esse liberos/i: Pliny's iPanegyricus/i and Liberty, M.P.O. Morford8. The Art of Sincerity: Pliny's iPanegyricus/i, S. Bartsch9. Divine Comedya Accession propaganda in Pliny, iEpistles/i 10.1-2 and the iPanegyric/iThe Gallic Panegyrics10. Latin Panegyric in the Tetrarchic and Constantinian Period, C.E.V. Nixon11. Latin Prose Panegyrics, S. MacCormack12. The Corpus of Latin Panegyrics from Late Antiquity: Problems of Imitation, E. Vereeke and translated by R.D. Rees13. Locutions and Formulae of the Latin Panegyrist, W.S. Maguinness14. Divine Insinuation in the iPanegyrici Latini/i, B. Saylor Rodgers15. Aspects of Constantinian Propaganda in the iPanegyrici Latini/i, B.H. Warmington16. The Panegyric of Claudius Mamertinus on the Emperor Julian, R. Blockley17. The Ideal of the Ruler and Attachment to tradition in Pacatus Panegyric, A. Lippold and translated by D. RichardsonBibliography