Panegyrics of Maximian (289 and 291).
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 4044 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 96 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 1999 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251799506 |
Classic bilingual collection. It was in Trier, the nascent capital of the Empire, that Mamertin, a Gallic orator, himself probably from this city, delivered two panegyrics, in 289 and 291, in praise of the Emperor Maximian-Hercules. Diocletian had just called him to his side to "restore the affairs of state," raising him first to the rank of Caesar and then to that of Augustus, then granting him the title of Herculius, while he himself took that of Jouius. Through the voice of Mamertin, the dyarchic system thus finds a justification both in fact and in law: the military successes of Maximian and Diocletian allow the Roman world to experience a new period of prosperity, a new golden age, while the twinning of power in no way compromises the concordia and even authorizes the orator to compare the two co-regents to twin brothers managing an "undivided patrimony." Mamertin thus develops a theology of imperial power, echoing certain philosophical conceptions popularized in the schools of rhetoric where, in the late-imperial period, a philosophical eclecticism tinged with religiosity was readily practiced.
Classic bilingual collection. It was in Trier, the nascent capital of the Empire, that Mamertin, a Gallic orator, himself probably from this city, delivered two panegyrics, in 289 and 291, in praise of the Emperor Maximian-Hercules. Diocletian had just called him to his side to "restore the affairs of state," raising him first to the rank of Caesar and then to that of Augustus, then granting him the title of Herculius, while he himself took that of Jouius. Through the voice of Mamertin, the dyarchic system thus finds a justification both in fact and in law: the military successes of Maximian and Diocletian allow the Roman world to experience a new period of prosperity, a new golden age, while the twinning of power in no way compromises the concordia and even authorizes the orator to compare the two co-regents to twin brothers managing an "undivided patrimony." Mamertin thus develops a theology of imperial power, echoing certain philosophical conceptions popularized in the schools of rhetoric where, in the late-imperial period, a philosophical eclecticism tinged with religiosity was readily practiced.