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Author Rees, Roger

Title Layers of loyality in Latin panegyric, AD 289-307 / Roger Rees
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 237 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Map of the World of the Tetrarchy -- 1. Panegyric X(2) -- 2. Panegyric XI(3) -- 3. Panegyric VIII(4) -- 4. Panegyric IX(5) -- 5. Panegyric VII(6) -- App. On the Authorship of Panegyrici Latini X(2) and XI(3)
Summary "Discussion of the potential and tension inherent in the culture of imperial praesentia introduces the study's main approach. In each of five substantial chapters, the date, place, and circumstances of delivery are considered in order to identify the challenges facing the orator. Close analysis of style and content reveals how diplomatic combinations of established and original literary tropes, treatise recommendations, figured expressions of imperial relationships, and adaptations of contemporary numismatic and artistic iconography articulate very specific ambitions and agenda. The orators are shown to be sophisticated, informed, and confident: their speeches are encoded expressions of local preoccupations."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Panegyrici Latini. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021525
Panegyrici Latini. fast (OCoLC)fst01363750
Subject Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin -- History and criticism
Loyalty in literature.
Praise in literature.
Loyalty in literature.
Praise in literature.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin.
Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures.
Languages & Literatures.
SUBJECT Rome -- History -- Diocletian, 284-305 -- Sources
Rome -- History -- Constantine I, the Great, 306-337 -- Sources
Rome -- History -- Period of military anarchy, 235-284 -- Sources
Subject Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Sources.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002066229
ISBN 9780191719431
0191719439