Pliny''s Praise - The Panegyricus in the Roman World

Informationen zum Autor Paul Roche is Senior Lecturer in Latin at the University of Sydney. He has published a number of articles and chapters on the literature and history of the early Roman Empire, and has a particular focus on politics and public imagery in Domitianic and Trajanic Rome. He is the author of Lucan, De Bello Civili Book 1: A Commentary (2009) and the editor (with W. J. Dominik and J. G. Garthwaite) of Writing Politics in Imperial Rome (2009). Klappentext A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of this unique surviving speech delivered to the Emperor Trajan in AD 100. Zusammenfassung Pliny's Panegyricus is one of our best sources for the Emperor Trajan and a vital source of information on senatorial views of the emperor in the early Empire. This book contextualises this very important but almost completely neglected speech for scholars and students of Roman history! literature and rhetoric. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Pliny's thanksgiving: an introduction to the Panegyricus Paul Roche; 2. Self-fashioning in the Panegyricus Carlos F. Noreña; 3. The Panegyricus and the monuments of Rome Paul Roche; 4. The Panegyricus and rhetorical theory D. C. Innes; 5. Ciceronian praise as a step towards Pliny's Panegyricus Gesine Manuwald; 6. Contemporary contexts Bruce Gibson; 7. Politics and the sublime in the Panegyricus G. O. Hutchinson; 8. Down the pan: historical exemplarity in the Panegyricus John Henderson; 9. Afterwords of praise Roger Rees.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Roche, Paul (University of Sydney) Roche, Roche Paul
• Assisted by: Paul Roche (Editor), Paul (University of Sydney) Roche (Editor), Roche Paul (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.05.2011
• EAN: 9781107009059
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00905-9
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE period – Protohistory