{"product_id":"latin-panegyric-roger-rees-9780199576722","title":"Latin Panegyric","description":"What was Roman political praise for and what could it achieve? Could it have literary merit? What do the surviving examples of Roman political praise-giving reveal about the circumstances and milieu in which they originated? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eLatin Panegyric\u003c\/em\u003e brings together sixteen essays focusing on praise in the Roman Empire and, in particular, on praise of the emperor. Spanning a century of scholarship, and constituting landmark studies on different aspects of the largest collection of classical Latin oratory to survive after Cicero--the \u003cem\u003ePanegyrici Latini\u003c\/em\u003e--this collection includes speeches addressed to the emperors Trajan, Maximian, Constantine, Julian, and Theodosius, and traces three centuries of oratorical praise-giving in the Roman world. These influential readings consider textual, rhetorical, literary, political, and religious matters, and together represent the evolving landscape of academic attitudes towards praise discourse, with its strengths and problems, and towards some of the best-known Roman emperors. With a full introduction by the editor, and with four essays translated into English for the first time, this valuable volume plots the narratives of Roman praise and gives students of classical literature, history, and rhetoric direct access to key scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roger Rees\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199576726\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199576722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.30w x 1.00d","brand":"Roger Rees","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517276270847,"sku":"9780199576722","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c1b90a0-0449-452d-b410-a623312f69aa.jpg?v=1778731071","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/latin-panegyric-roger-rees-9780199576722","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}