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Mar 8, 2012 · G. O. Hutchison’s “Politics and the sublime in the Panegyricus ” shows how notions of sublimity permeate not only Pliny’s praise of Trajan but also his condemnation of Domitian’s vanity. His enlightening discussion of Pliny’s views on the sublime (outlined in Ep. 9.26 and illustrated by the speech) presents an important counterpoint ...
- Paul Roche
Jun 5, 2011 · On 1 September 100 ce, Pliny the Younger rose in the senate to deliver the oration we know as the Panegyricus. This was a gratiarum actio, a ‘vote of thanks’, offered up to the emperor Trajan (98–117). It was given on the occasion of Pliny's attainment of the consulship, the prime goal of regular senatorial ambition and the highest rung ...
senate to deliver the oration we know as the Panegyricus. This was a gratiarum actio, a ‘vote of thanks . , offered up to the emperor Trajan ( – ). It was given on the occasion of Pliny’s attainment of the consulship, the prime goal of regular senatorial ambition and the highest rung, albeit of suffect status, on the normal cur.
Jun 5, 2011 · In a letter, Pliny rejects any advisory role; his aim is to praise the emperor for his excellence ( laudare optimum principem, Ep. 3.18.2–3) and present him as a model for any successors. The speech is thus a prime example of classical panegyric and our only extant such speech in Latin from the early imperial period.
- D. C. Innes
- 2011
Latini, Pliny’s address to Trajan has traditionally been read as a paradig-matic model for the subsequent eleven speeches. This theory originated with G. Boissier (1884.6–7), who argued that the panegyrists replicate the structure and outline of Pliny’s Panegyricus, imitating his shrewd depic-
The Panegyricus of Plinius Secundus Delivered to The Emperor Trajan. 1. Our ancestors in their wisdom, Conscript Fathers, laid down the excellent rule that a speech no less than a course of action should take its start from prayers: thinking that nothing could be properly and prudently begun by mortal men without the aid and counsel of the ...
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made to indicate the author’s use of Pliny’s Panegyricus in the writing of the Historia Augusta not only to shed a light on the literary content of the Historia Augusta, but also to stage the Historia Augusta as a specimen of the panegyrical mode in late antiquity—with Pliny as its possible model.
