Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius

Adrastos Omissi is Lecturer in Latin Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy (OUP, 2018). Alan J. Ross is Assistant Professor of Classics at Columbia University, USA. He is the author of Ammianus’ Julian: Narrative and Genre in the Res Gestae (OUP, 2016) and the editor of Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire (Brill, 2018).

• 1. Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to HonoriusAdrastos Omissi & Alan J. RossPANEGYRIC: THEORY AND PRACTICE2. What is a ‘panegyric’?Laurent Pernot3. (Not) Making Faces: Prosopopeia in Late Antique PanegyricRoger Rees4. Libanius’ Imperial Speech to Constantius II and Constans (Or. 59): Context, Tradition, and InnovationGrammatiki KarlaTHE IMPERIAL IMAGE5. Playing with Conventions in Julian’s Encomium to Eusebia: Does Gender Make a Difference?Belinda Washington6. Julian and Claudius Mamertinus: Panegyric and Polemic in East and West Shaun TougherTHE ORATOR AND ORATORIAL IDENTITY7. How to Praise a Christian Emperor: The Panegyrical Experiments of Eusebius of CaesareaJames Corke-Webster8. Neoplatonic Philosophy in Tetrarchic and Constantinian PanegyricDiederik Burgersdijk9. Roman and Gallic in the Latin Panegyrics of Symmachus and AusoniusRobert ChenaultOUTSIDERS WITHIN THE SPEECH10. Civil War and the Late Roman Panegyrical CorpusAdrastos Omissi11. Inviting the Enemy in: Assimilating Barbarians in Theodosian PanegyricRobert Stone12. The Audience in Imperial PanegyricAlan J. RossAppendix: Editions, Translations and Commentaries of Imperial Panegyrics

'The anthology offers something for many, whether one wants to pursue specific individual topics or also want to gain an overall impression of late antique panegyric, beyond the much-examined collection of the Panegyrici Latini.' Ulrich Lambrecht, Plekos