Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
The long reign of Constantine the Great saw the re-establishment of dynastic rule and the state-sponsorship of Christianity; these fundamental political and cultural changes came with new vitality, agency and ambition in the public discourse of political praise-giving. This volume foregrounds the Constantinian era as a key period in the history of the rhetoric and aesthetics of political messaging through the artful praise of Constantine; chapters attend to praise in prose and verse, Christian and not, in Latin and Greek, stand-alone and as part of a collection, all in the lifetime or Constantine or soon after his death.
Price: $132.00
Pages: 336
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements, Late Antique Literature
Publication Date:
17 December 2026
ISBN: 9789004764668
Format: Hardcover
Bruce Gibson is Professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool. Publications include Statius, Silvae 5 (Oxford, 2006), Polybius and his World (co-edited with Thomas Harrison, Oxford, 2013), and Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity (Arethusa 46.2, 2013, co-edited with Roger Rees).
Roger Rees is Professor of Classics at St Andrews. His publications include Layers of Loyalty in Latin Panegyric 289-307AD (Oxford, 2002), Latin Panegyric (ed., Oxford, 2012), Commentary on Panegyrici Latini II (12) (Cambridge 2023) and Commentary of Panegyrici Latini XII (9) (with Jan Willem Drijvers, forthcoming).
Contributors are: Rebecca Usherwood, Catherine Ware, Michael Hanaghan, Roger Rees, Bruce Gibson, Michael Squire, Milena Raimondi, David Greenwood, Christian Djurslev, Alan Ross.