Title: Layers of loyalty in Latin panegyric, AD 289-307
Description: "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.
Subjects: Sources, History, Praise in literature, Panegyrici Latini, Speeches, addresses, etc, Latin, Loyalty in literature, History and criticism, Rome, history, sources, Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin, Latin Laudatory poetry
Places: Rome
Time periods: Constantine I, the Great, 306-337, Diocletian, 284-305, Period of military anarchy, 235-284