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A panegyric (US: / ˌ p æ n ɪ ˈ dʒ ɪ r ɪ k / or UK: / ˌ p æ n ɪ ˈ dʒ aɪ r ɪ k /) is a formal public speech or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing. [1] The original panegyrics were speeches delivered at public events in ancient Athens.
Panegyric 12, meanwhile, contains a direct allusion to Caesar's Bellum civile. [25] Accentual and metrical clausulae were used by all the Gallic panegyrists. All of the panegyrists, save Eumenius, used both forms at a rate of about 75 percent or better (Eumenius used the former 67.8 percent of the time, and the latter 72.4 percent). [26]
Πανήγυρις is also transliterated as panegyry, [5] and in turn, some sources define panegyry to be a panegyric. [6] [7] A panegyric is a formal public speech ...
Laudatio florentinae urbis (Latin for "Praise of the City of Florence") is a panegyric delivered by Leonardo Bruni (c. 1403–4). The panegyric is modeled after Aelius Aristides' Panathenaic Oration, [1] particularly with references to Florence's values and external threats. [2] It was first delivered immediately after Florence's victory over ...
An image of Constantine, subject of Life of Constantine. Life of Constantine the Great (Ancient Greek: Βίος Μεγάλου Κωνσταντίνου, romanized: Bios Megalou Kōnstantinou; Latin: Vita Constantini) is a panegyric written in Greek in honor of Constantine the Great by Eusebius of Caesarea in the 4th century AD.
His major works are the epic poem Iohannis, a panegyric called "Panegyric of Anastasius", and a poem in praise of the Emperor Justin II, In laudem Iustini minoris. [1] Corippus was probably the last important Latin author of Late Antiquity .
Eusebius's Life of Constantine (Vita Constantini) is a eulogy or panegyric, and therefore its style and selection of facts are affected by its purpose, rendering it inadequate as a continuation of the Church History.
It is a panegyric or praise-poem apparently written to celebrate the installation to the consulship of Tibullus's patron the Roman aristocrat Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus in 31 BC. The poem is numbered 3.7 in the Tibullus collection.