Integrative teaching
Exercises
Examination procedure
Seminars
Prerequisites
This course is intended for PhD students and is open to undergraduate students. Knowledge of Latin and ancient Greek is required.
Syllabus
Some sections of the panegyrics in verse by Claudian, Merobaudes and Sidonius Apollinaris will be read and commented on during the lessons. Through the analysis of these works, we will bring into focus a series of problems related to the western Roman empire in late antiquity: political communication and the representation of power; the ideology and the concrete practice of internal and external relations; the role of the poet in the imperial court
Bibliographical references
Some general studies are here indicated. The bibliography on specific aspects of the course will be provided during the lessons
A. Cameron, Poetry and Propaganda at the Court of Honorius, Oxford 1970
A. Gillett, Epic Panegyric and Political Communication in the Fifth-Century West, in Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity, ed. by L. Grig and G. Kelly, Oxford 2012, 265-290
S.G. MacCormack, Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London 1981
L. Pernot, La rhétorique de l’éloge dans le monde gréco-romain, Paris 1993
C. Schindler, Per carmina laudes, Berlin 2009