Abstract

This paper examines how the presentation of the past in Pliny's Panegyricus can inform our understanding of other speeches in the Panegyrici Latini. Readings of PanLat VI(7), IV(10), and III(11) will examine issues such as adoption and co-rulership, the use of the past as a means of commenting on the present, and the role of sincerity and flattery, as well as the treatment of the republican past, and show how the authors of the speeches use and modify Plinian strategies for the treatment of the past in praising emperors.

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