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tion to exemplifying the ways in which orators presented family histories, illustrate the creative license and perhaps limits of humanist panegyric. Of more than three hundred epithalamia examined, these two offer the most problematic and, there fore, revealing genealogies. These two orations are unusual in their subjects but not in their focus ...
It is a hybrid work, as Averil Cameron observes, with “Life” in its conventional title, but actually a mixture of documentary history and imperial panegyric. Whether this is the result of a prolonged writing process with shifting aims, or the deliberate creation of an author who knew what he was doing, is a matter of discussion.
44 Fishwick (n.42) 466. GOD AND MAN IN THE CLASSICAL LATIN PANEGYRIC 8 1. by employing similar phrasing of the felicitas of the Roman state, which is he implies, by the Emperor's love for it, even in advance of the gods' fulfilment people's prayers.45 The Emperor is in effect now a divine being granting. others.
Panegyric and the Discourse of Praise in Late Antiquity* CATHERINE WARE Eulogy: Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary A. FILIPPO and M. UGENTI (EDS), GIULIANO IMPERATORE: ELOGIO DELL’IMPERATRICE EUSEBIA (Testi e commenti 29).
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Here, for the first time, is an annotated English translation ofthe eleven later panegyrics (291-389 C.E.) of the XIIPanegyrici Latini, with the original Latin ...
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Aug 13, 2019 · The questions, therefore, of what a panegyric is and what it is for are highly relevant to modern scholarship, not only to commentaries but, as is apparent from the books under review, to studies of rhetoric, late antique historiography and the creation of the imperial image.
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The 13 essays presented here shed new light on the role of panegyric in the western and eastern Roman Empire in the late antique world. Introductory chapters give an overview of panegyrical theory and practice, followed by studies of major writers of the early empire and the anonymous Panegyrici latini .
