Search for dissertations about: "panegyric"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the word panegyric.

  2. 1. Martial, Book IX : A commentary. Vol. 1, Vol. 2

    Author : Christer Henriksén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical philology - general; Martial; epigram; Domitian; Silver Latin; panegyric; Statius; Ovid; Greek Anthology; Klassiska språk - allmänt; Classical philology; Klassiska språk; latin; Latin;

    Abstract : This dissertation consists of a commentary on Book 9 of the Epigrams of M. Valerius Martialis (ca. 40-104 AD). READ MORE

  4. 2. Celebrating with Words : Studies in the Rhetorical Works of the Gaza School

    Author : David Westberg; Jan Olof Rosenqvist; Ruth Webb; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gaza school; Late Antique rhetoric; Late Antique oratory; epideictic; Choricius of Gaza; Procopius of Gaza; classical tradition; mimesis; panegyric; funeral speeches; wedding speeches; ecphrasis; Classical philology; Klassiska språk; Greek; grekiska;

    Abstract : This study investigates the School of Gaza, a circle of rhetoricians in Late Antique Palestine. Special attention is paid to Choricius and Procopius of Gaza, and in particular to their epideictic works. READ MORE

  5. 3. Sketching the Invisible : Patterns of Church and City in Theodoret of Cyrrhus' Philotheos Historia

    Author : Andreas Westergren; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Late Antiquity; biography; hagiography; panegyric; asceticism; monasticism; Syria; Antioch; Symeon the Stylite; pilgrimage; relics; cult of the saints; civic ideals; invention of tradition; the role of the bishop; ecclesiology; sacralization; christianization; philosophy; Neoplatonism; Libanius; Dionysius Areopagita;

    Abstract : The fundamental question in this work concerns the ideal relation between asceticism and society in a 5th c. writing (C.E.), the Philotheos Historia (PH), written in elaborate Greek by the learned bishop of Cyrrhus, Theodoret. READ MORE

  6. 4. Scripta Imagine : Buildings, Transformations, and Rhetorical Ekphrasis in Statius’ Silvae

    Author : Samuel Douglas; Christer Henriksén; Carole Newlands; Bruce Gibson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Statius; Ekphrasis; Rhetoric; Latin; Latin; Latin;

    Abstract : Statius’ Silvae, his collected epideictic poems in five volumes, have long been recognised as a descriptive tour-de-force, with its extensive depictions of buildings, people, and art. Modern critical responses to these have been varied, identifying a wide variety of influences and stylistic tendencies in these works. READ MORE

  7. 5. De Inconexis Continuum - A Study of the Late Antique Latin Wedding Centos

    Author : Sara Ehrling; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; cento; cento poetry; Cento Nuptialis; Epithalamium Fridi; wedding poetry; epithalamia; late antique Latin poetry; Ausonius; Luxorius; Open works;

    Abstract : The kind of literature that is called cento is studied in this thesis with a special focus on two late antique Latin wedding poems, Cento Nuptialis written by Ausonius in the late 4th century A.D., and Epithalamium Fridi probably written in Carthage some hundred years later. READ MORE