By Paul Roche
Pliny's Panegyricus (AD a hundred) survives as a different instance of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It bargains an eyewitness account of the final years of Domitian's principate, the reign of Nerva and Trajan's early years, and it communicates a close senatorial view at the behaviour anticipated of an emperor. it really is an incredible record within the improvement of the beliefs of imperial management, however it additionally contributes drastically to our realizing of imperial political tradition extra as a rule. This quantity, the 1st ever dedicated to the Panegyricus, includes specialist experiences of its key ancient and rhetorical contexts, in addition to very important severe ways to the broadcast model of the speech and its effect in antiquity. It deals students of Roman heritage, literature and rhetoric an up to date evaluation of key techniques to the speech, and scholars and readers an authoritative creation to this very important and under-appreciated speech.
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Pliny’s thanksgiving 23 Under the aegis of these three broad headings, a wide range of critical approaches is represented. It is hoped that they collectively prompt further consideration and discussion of this key text. The volume begins, appropriately, with the construction of the author himself. 78 He underscores Pliny’s role as an innovator in the sphere of self-representation, and lays emphasis upon the implication throughout the speech that he is an insider, close to the centre of power, and qualified to pass judgement on both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ emperors.
Med. 13 (on Antoninus Pius). g. Pan. Lat. 2). For affection as a bulwark of royal power, see also Sen. Clem. 6. g. the essays collected in K¨onig and Whitmarsh (2007). See also Wallace-Hadrill (2005) – an updated and revised version of a chapter first published in 1997 – a concise discussion of the increased autonomy, and cultural authority, of various bodies of knowledge, some technical, in the period of the Augustan ‘revolution’; for further elaboration of these points, see now Wallace-Hadrill (2008) ch.
After this moment, Pliny claims that he halted his own advancement, preferring a slower ascendancy over the short cuts to honores which were then on offer (Pan. 4). In the early years of Domitian’s reign, Pliny served as military tribune in the legio III Gallica, stationed in Syria. 66 From the midto late 80s (perhaps as early as 8667 ), Pliny’s career shows evidence of Domitian’s favour. Pliny now held the quaestorship as the emperor’s own candidate. 68 Pliny retrospectively and inevitably sanitized the honour as quaestor Caesaris (Ep.