Forging the Enemy: Fakeness, Invective, and Politics in the Panegyrici Latini and the Historia Augusta.
The article focuses on the role of epideictic rhetoric in late antique literature, particularly how invective and fictional narratives were employed to shape political discourse and imperial propaganda. It discusses how orators and historians used praise and blame to construct the image of legitimat...
| Publicado en: | Illinois Classical Studies Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 38 - 57 |
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Spring2025
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