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Pliny's praise : the Panegyricus in the Roman world /

"Pliny's Panegyricus (AD 100) survives as a unique example of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It offers an eyewitness account of the last years of Domitian's principate, the reign of Nerva and Trajan's early years, and it communicates a detailed senatorial view o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Roche, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.