The Ivy and the Conquering Bay
Quintilian on Domitian and Domitianic Policy
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 20065655 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Paul Roche (0009-0007-3825-2974, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2009 |
| Páginas | 367-385 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | CHAPTER |
| Revista | Writing Politics in Imperial Rome (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Editorial | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004217133_017 |
| OpenAlex | W805493419 |
| ISBN | 9789004217133 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 8 |
Few modern readers of the Institutio Oratoria , have been satisfied by the sincerity of Quintilian's appraisal of Domitian. Somehow the invariably manly, honourable, and straightforward voice adopted throughout the treatise seems inherently alien to the easy hyperbole of the rhetorician's thumb-sketches of his emperor. This chapter considers the extent to which Quintilian's praise of his emperor in the Institutio Oratoria can be read as embodying an ironic or satirical response to Domitian's public imagery. It tries to allow Quintilian's own codifying of figures and tropes to shed interpretive light upon his comments about Domitian. The chapter concentrates exclusively on the relevance of Quintilian's assessment of his emperor's talents to Domitianic foreign and domestic policy in the 80s and 90s. The concomitant danger of constructing a reductive apparition of either Quintilian or Domitian to meet one's own political and moral convictions is also flagrant and unavoidable. Keywords: domestic policy; Domitian; emperor's talents; foreign policy; Institutio Oratoria ; moral convictions; public imagery; Quintilian
Ancient history · Art · Emperor · Literature · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citas por año | 0,8 |
|---|---|
| Intervalo de citas | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Altamente citado | No |