Imperial panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Imperial panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius
（Translated texts for historians, contexts, 3）
Liverpool University Press, 2020
Available at 1 libraries
Note
"This volume grew out of a panel on late antique panegyric at the ninth Celtic Conference in Classics held at University College Dublin in 2016..."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian
to Honorius examines one of the most important
literatures of the late Roman period - speeches of praise addressed to the reigning
emperor - and the panegyrical culture of the late Roman world more generally. Unlike
much previous work on this topic, Imperial Panegyric takes a consciously comparative
approach, especially between eastern and western, Greek and Latin texts.
Each contributor
draws upon evidence taken from multiple authors or from different kinds of panegyric
in order to explore both the communal and the particular in this most idiosyncratic
of media. The volume investigates to what extent there
was a unified concept of imperial panegyric, and how local circumstances shaped
individual speeches. It also considers the ways in which traditional forms of praise-giving
respond to fourth-century phenomena such as the expansion of Christianity, collegial
rulership, and the decline of Rome as the political centre of the empire. Its
contributors include a roster of some of the most important names in the field
of panegyric studies, both established researchers and the rising stars of the
new generation.
Table of Contents
1. Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius
Adrastos Omissi & Alan J. Ross
PANEGYRIC: THEORY AND PRACTICE
2. What is a 'panegyric'?
Laurent Pernot
3. (Not) Making Faces: Prosopopeia in Late Antique Panegyric
Roger Rees
4. Libanius' Imperial Speech to Constantius II and Constans (Or. 59): Context, Tradition, and Innovation
Grammatiki Karla
THE IMPERIAL IMAGE
5. Playing with Conventions in Julian's Encomium to Eusebia: Does Gender Make a Difference?
Belinda Washington
6. Julian and Claudius Mamertinus: Panegyric and Polemic in East and West
Shaun Tougher
THE ORATOR AND ORATORIAL IDENTITY
7. How to Praise a Christian Emperor: The Panegyrical Experiments of Eusebius of Caesarea
James Corke-Webster
8. Neoplatonic Philosophy in Tetrarchic and Constantinian Panegyric
Diederik Burgersdijk
9. Roman and Gallic in the Latin Panegyrics of Symmachus and Ausonius
Robert Chenault
OUTSIDERS WITHIN THE SPEECH
10. Civil War and the Late Roman Panegyrical Corpus
Adrastos Omissi
11. Inviting the Enemy in: Assimilating Barbarians in Theodosian Panegyric
Robert Stone
12. The Audience in Imperial Panegyric
Alan J. Ross
Appendix: Editions, Translations and Commentaries of Imperial Panegyrics
by "Nielsen BookData"