"The Delirium of Praise examines a group of five twentieth-century French intellectuals - Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Pierre Klossowski - and their laudatory essays about each other. Structured as a circular series of exchanges, the b…
The propaganda of power: the role of panegyric in late antiquity
by Whitby, Mary
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The thirteen essays presented here shed new light on the role of panegyric in the western and eastern Roman Empire in the late antique world. The core of the volume deals with prose and verse panegyric under the Christian Roman Empire (4th-7th century): key themes addressed are …
The period from AD250 and AD 450 witnessed the creation of a distinctive Christian Greek culture in the eastern part of the Roman empire. This text focuses on the transition from ancient to Christian Hellenism, drawing on the literature of the time.
This book focuses on the transition from ancient to Christian Hellenism as it was expressed in the biographical and panegyric literature of the period. The essays show how literary genres focusing on individual lives help to reveal this historical process. Together, the collecti…
