Table of Contents

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.

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A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of this unique surviving speech delivered to the Emperor Trajan in AD 100.

About the Author

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).