This monograph provides a review of the history of praise of rulers composed in hexameters (so-called panegyric epic) from the fourth to the sixth century A.D. Panegyric epic is a form of literature that only came to be of particular importance in...
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This monograph provides a review of the history of praise of rulers composed in hexameters (so-called panegyric epic) from the fourth to the sixth century A.D. Panegyric epic is a form of literature that only came to be of particular importance in Late Antiquity, although it drew upon and adapted a variety of Graeco-Roman literary traditions. Following a general description of the literary and historical-cultural preconditions for the development of Late Antique panegyric, this study presents its most important practitioners and their works, as well as detailing the development of the various
Frontmatter; Inhaltsverzeichnis; Vorwort; I. Einleitung; II. Von der Epideiktik zur Panegyrischen Epik. Voraussetzungen und Kontext spätantiker Verspanegyrik; III. Claudius Claudianus. Der Archeget spätantiker Verspanegyrik im lateinischen Westen; IV. Flavius Merobaudes, Sidonius Apollinaris, Priscianus: Hexametrische Panegyrik in der Nachfolge Claudians; V. Flavius Cresconius Corippus. Spätantike Verspanegyrik als heroische Großepik; Backmatter;
