Paul Roche
Biographic Data
| ID | 1191785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Roche |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Roche |
| SIGNATURE | ROCHE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-3825-2974 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pliny’s dynastic paradoxes: The theory and practice of succession in the Panegyricus
This article reads paragraph seven of Pliny’s Panegyricus as a theoretical critique of adoption and hereditary succession. In this section of the speech Pliny foregrounds analysis over narrative or description as he compares the circumstances of Trajan’s adoption with the most relevant examples of imperial succession from Augustus to Domitian. The result of this comparison is a suite of general principles recommending adoption of the best citizen…
Horace and Virgil on a Few Acres Left Behind ( Carmina 2.15 and 3.16, and Georgics 4.125–48)
This article proposes and interprets a previously undiscussed connection between Horace's Carmen 2.15 and the description of the Corycian gardener at Virgil's Georgics 4.125–48. It argues that this allusion to Virgil sharpens the moral pessimism of Horace's ode. It first considers the circumstantial, general and formal elements connecting these two poems; it then considers how the model of the Corycian gardener brings further point and nuance to …
Historia de las Indias (1552)
Entre las crónicas españolas del siglo XVI relativas al Nuevo Mundo, la Historia de las Indias de Francisco López de Gómara (1552) fue la única en ofrecer una visión completa del proceso de descubrimiento y conquista. Contemporánea de los acontecimientos narrados, fue elaborada a distancia. Su autor no fue nunca a las Indias, pero consiguió una información de primera mano y se esforzó en comprender y plantear todos los problemas relacionados con …
Datos biográficos
La biografía de Gómara, que adoleció durante años de una notable escasez de datos y se vio incluso adulterada por afirmaciones erróneas, ha sido ampliamente renovada en los últimos treinta años. Y aunque quedan varias zonas oscuras, gracias a los documentos recién localizados, ahora resulta posible esbozar de manera bastante completa la biografía del cronista. Juventud y formación Gómara deslizó en los Annales del Emperador Carlos Quinto que naci…
Nitidum ~ λιπαρός ~ Lipara: A Bilingual Pun at Horace, Carm . 1.4
Pliny and Suetonius on Giving and Returning Imperial Power
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Citing Empedocles: A Bilingual Pun at Ovid, Met. 15.58
Ovid completes his narrative of the origin of Croton with the following lines ( Met . 15.58–9): talia constabat certa primordia fama esse loci positaeque Italis in finibus urbis. It was agreed by sure fame that such were the beginnings of the place and of the city established within Italian borders
Latin Prose Literature: Author and Authority in the Prefaces of Pliny and Quintilian
This chapter considers the author's self-representation in the prefaces of two monumental prose works that have survived from the Flavian period, Pliny the Elder's Natural History and Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria. It examines some of the strategies by which Pliny and Quintilian orchestrate the reader's first impressions, both of their works, as well as their political, social, and literary authority and status. The Natural History's prefatory…
A Fawn in the Wood: Inuleus in Horace Carmen 1.23
Pliny's thanksgiving: An introduction to the Panegyricus
On 1 September 100 ce, Pliny the Younger rose in the senate to deliver the oration we know as the Panegyricus. This was a gratiarum actio, a 'vote of thanks', offered up to the emperor Trajan (98–117). It was given on the occasion of Pliny's attainment of the consulship, the prime goal of regular senatorial ambition and the highest rung, albeit of suffect status, on the normal cursus honorum. Pliny claims as the pretext for his speech a senatus c…
Pliny's Praise: The Panegyricus in the Roman World
Pliny's Panegyricus (AD 100) survives as a unique example of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It offers an eyewitness account of the last years of Domitian's principate, the reign of Nerva and Trajan's early years, and it communicates a detailed senatorial view on the behaviour expected of an emperor. It is an important document in the development of the ideals of imperial leadership, but it also contributes greatly to our underst…
Cicero on Divination: De Divinatione Book I - Edited by David Wardle, trans
Writing Imperial Politics: The Context
The Ivy and the Conquering Bay: Quintilian on Domitian and Domitianic Policy
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…
Lucan: De Bello Ciuili: Book I
Writing Politics in Imperial Rome
Roman literature is inherently political in the varied contexts of its production and the abiding concerns of its subject matter. This collection examines the strategies and techniques of political writing at Rome in a broad range of literature spanning almost two centuries, differing political systems, climates, and contexts. It applies a definition of politics that is more in keeping with modern critical approaches than has often been the case …
The Public Imagery of the Emperor Otho
Lucan's Shooting Stars (1.536): Per vacuum noctis tempus
The Execution of L. Salvius Otho Cocceianus
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The Public Image of Trajan's Family
The Marriage Ceremonies of the Malayalis of the Pachaimalais
Presentation de la societe Malayali du Tamil Nadu. Description des phases successives du contrat et de la ceremonie du mariage
The Marriage Ceremonies of the Christian Paraiyans of the Kumbakonam Area, India
Three Plays of Euripides. Alcestis, Medea, the Bacchae
Three Plays by Plautus: Amphitryon, Major Bullshot-Gorgeous (Miles Gloriosus), the Prisoners (Captivi)
The Poems of Sappho. With an Introduction
Writing Politics in Imperial Rome
Roman literature is inherently political in the varied contexts of its production and the abiding concerns of its subject matter. This collection examines the strategies and techniques of political writing at Rome in a broad range of literature spanning almost two centuries, differing political systems, climates, and contexts. It applies a definition of politics that is more in keeping with modern critical approaches than has often been the case …
Lucan: De Bello Ciuili: Book I
The Public Image of Trajan's Family
Citing Empedocles: A Bilingual Pun at Ovid, Met. 15.58
Ovid completes his narrative of the origin of Croton with the following lines ( Met . 15.58–9): talia constabat certa primordia fama esse loci positaeque Italis in finibus urbis. It was agreed by sure fame that such were the beginnings of the place and of the city established within Italian borders
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus: The Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus
The Poems of Sappho. With an Introduction
Three Plays by Plautus: Amphitryon, Major Bullshot-Gorgeous (Miles Gloriosus), the Prisoners (Captivi)
Three Plays of Euripides. Alcestis, Medea, the Bacchae
The Marriage Ceremonies of the Christian Paraiyans of the Kumbakonam Area, India
The Marriage Ceremonies of the Malayalis of the Pachaimalais
Presentation de la societe Malayali du Tamil Nadu. Description des phases successives du contrat et de la ceremonie du mariage
The Public Image of Trajan's Family
The Execution of L. Salvius Otho Cocceianus
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Public Imagery of the Emperor Otho
Lucan's Shooting Stars (1.536): Per vacuum noctis tempus
Writing Imperial Politics: The Context
The Ivy and the Conquering Bay: Quintilian on Domitian and Domitianic Policy
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…
Lucan: De Bello Ciuili: Book I
Writing Politics in Imperial Rome
Roman literature is inherently political in the varied contexts of its production and the abiding concerns of its subject matter. This collection examines the strategies and techniques of political writing at Rome in a broad range of literature spanning almost two centuries, differing political systems, climates, and contexts. It applies a definition of politics that is more in keeping with modern critical approaches than has often been the case …
Pliny's thanksgiving: An introduction to the Panegyricus
On 1 September 100 ce, Pliny the Younger rose in the senate to deliver the oration we know as the Panegyricus. This was a gratiarum actio, a 'vote of thanks', offered up to the emperor Trajan (98–117). It was given on the occasion of Pliny's attainment of the consulship, the prime goal of regular senatorial ambition and the highest rung, albeit of suffect status, on the normal cursus honorum. Pliny claims as the pretext for his speech a senatus c…
Pliny's Praise: The Panegyricus in the Roman World
Pliny's Panegyricus (AD 100) survives as a unique example of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It offers an eyewitness account of the last years of Domitian's principate, the reign of Nerva and Trajan's early years, and it communicates a detailed senatorial view on the behaviour expected of an emperor. It is an important document in the development of the ideals of imperial leadership, but it also contributes greatly to our underst…
Cicero on Divination: De Divinatione Book I - Edited by David Wardle, trans
A Fawn in the Wood: Inuleus in Horace Carmen 1.23
Latin Prose Literature: Author and Authority in the Prefaces of Pliny and Quintilian
This chapter considers the author's self-representation in the prefaces of two monumental prose works that have survived from the Flavian period, Pliny the Elder's Natural History and Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria. It examines some of the strategies by which Pliny and Quintilian orchestrate the reader's first impressions, both of their works, as well as their political, social, and literary authority and status. The Natural History's prefatory…
Pliny and Suetonius on Giving and Returning Imperial Power
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Citing Empedocles: A Bilingual Pun at Ovid, Met. 15.58
Ovid completes his narrative of the origin of Croton with the following lines ( Met . 15.58–9): talia constabat certa primordia fama esse loci positaeque Italis in finibus urbis. It was agreed by sure fame that such were the beginnings of the place and of the city established within Italian borders
Nitidum ~ λιπαρός ~ Lipara: A Bilingual Pun at Horace, Carm . 1.4
Historia de las Indias (1552)
Entre las crónicas españolas del siglo XVI relativas al Nuevo Mundo, la Historia de las Indias de Francisco López de Gómara (1552) fue la única en ofrecer una visión completa del proceso de descubrimiento y conquista. Contemporánea de los acontecimientos narrados, fue elaborada a distancia. Su autor no fue nunca a las Indias, pero consiguió una información de primera mano y se esforzó en comprender y plantear todos los problemas relacionados con …
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