Beschreibung:
Richard Flower is Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter.
An analysis of the earliest surviving invectives against a living Roman emperor and their significance for political and religious history.
Introduction: the use of abuse; 1. Praise and blame in the Roman world; 2. Constructing a Christian tyrant; 3. Writing auto-hagiography; 4. Living up to the past; Epilogue; Appendix 1. Altercatio Heracliani cum Germinio; Appendix 2. Epistula Liberii papae ad Eusebium, Dionysium et Luciferum in exsilio constitutos; Appendix 3. Epistula Luciferi, Pancratii et Hilarii; Appendix 4. Letters of Eusebius of Vercelli; Appendix 5. Hilary of Poitiers, Contra Auxentium.