Compared with the classical historians he emulates, Ammianus Marcellinus represents few speeches in oratio recta, and they are comparatively limited in speaker, occasion, and form. Yet scholars have been too quick to dismiss Ammianus’ speeches as a meaningless vestige of an outmoded generic code. I argue that they represent a new method of incorporating speeches into historical narrative that is more adequate to the political discourse of the fourth century. The paper tests this hypothesis through a close examination of the four speeches Ammianus gives to Constantius II, demonstrating that they are subtle tools for measuring the emperor’s subjective merit against objective standards of imperial legitimacy.La revanche de Vetranio ? La proues...
The fourth-century historian Ammianus Marcellinus famously attacks the inhabitants of Rome in two sa...
Roman emperors legitimized their power by claiming to be the defenders of libertas against factions ...
The paper examines the preserved literary versions of the speeches delivered by Theban ambassadors b...
Compared with the classical historians he emulates, Ammianus Marcellinus represents few speeches in ...
The present Ph.D. deals with two chapters taken from the Res gestae by the Greek historiographer Amm...
By the late fourth century the seat of imperial power had moved from Rome. Emperors, in fact, seldom...
Cicero’s Staging of Historical Speech : Rhetoric and Political Ideology. Cicero identifies the accom...
Emperor Julian’s orations and letters allow to study in a vivid way the link which exists between rh...
The Rhetorical Manipulation of History in Cicero’s Philippics. Rhetorical manipulation of history is...
True Speeches or False Speeches? The Appian Case Study. The present article is about the function of...
The History of Provincial Administration in the Speeches of Cicero. Currently, the Ciceronian corpus...
This chapter examines how, by means of a carefully constructed narrative, the fourth-century Latin h...
The time today referred to as Late Antiquity was a time of turbulence and upheaval in the Roman Empi...
The orations of Quintus Aurelius Simmachus can only partly be studied within the framework of classi...
Tacitus' selection and treatment of reported speech in the Annals differed intentionally from establ...
The fourth-century historian Ammianus Marcellinus famously attacks the inhabitants of Rome in two sa...
Roman emperors legitimized their power by claiming to be the defenders of libertas against factions ...
The paper examines the preserved literary versions of the speeches delivered by Theban ambassadors b...
Compared with the classical historians he emulates, Ammianus Marcellinus represents few speeches in ...
The present Ph.D. deals with two chapters taken from the Res gestae by the Greek historiographer Amm...
By the late fourth century the seat of imperial power had moved from Rome. Emperors, in fact, seldom...
Cicero’s Staging of Historical Speech : Rhetoric and Political Ideology. Cicero identifies the accom...
Emperor Julian’s orations and letters allow to study in a vivid way the link which exists between rh...
The Rhetorical Manipulation of History in Cicero’s Philippics. Rhetorical manipulation of history is...
True Speeches or False Speeches? The Appian Case Study. The present article is about the function of...
The History of Provincial Administration in the Speeches of Cicero. Currently, the Ciceronian corpus...
This chapter examines how, by means of a carefully constructed narrative, the fourth-century Latin h...
The time today referred to as Late Antiquity was a time of turbulence and upheaval in the Roman Empi...
The orations of Quintus Aurelius Simmachus can only partly be studied within the framework of classi...
Tacitus' selection and treatment of reported speech in the Annals differed intentionally from establ...
The fourth-century historian Ammianus Marcellinus famously attacks the inhabitants of Rome in two sa...
Roman emperors legitimized their power by claiming to be the defenders of libertas against factions ...
The paper examines the preserved literary versions of the speeches delivered by Theban ambassadors b...