Sources

In Praise of Later Roman Emperors. The Panegyrici Latini. Introduction, Translation, and Historical Commentary with the Latin Text of R. A. B. Mynors. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 21. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Now available at Google Books Review by Simon Corcoran in BMCR

Discussions

Rhetoric:

There are several websites:

Silva Rhetoricae

Rhetoric

The Rhetoric Society of America

Education and Rhetoric

• Stanley E. Porter, ed. Handbook of classical rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, 330 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Leiden, 1997), especially chapter by Ruth Webb
• Teresa Morgan, Literate education in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds (Cambridge, 1998)
• George A. Kennedy, Classical rhetoric & its Christian & secular tradition from ancient to modern times 2nd ed., rev. and enl. (Chapel Hill, 1999).
• Janet Watson, Speaking volumes: orality and literacy in the Greek and Roman world (Leiden, 2001).
•  Raffaella Cribiore., Gymnastics of the mind: Greek education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt (Princeton, 2001).
  Education in Greek and Roman antiquity edited by Yun Lee Too(Leiden, 2001).

Panegyric

• L. Pernot, La rhétorique de l'éloge dans le monde gréco-romain (Paris, 1994)
• The propaganda of power; the role of panegyric in late antiquity, ed. M. Whitby (Brill, 1998).
• Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage)
  edd Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Review by Mary Whitby, Histos
• R. Rees, Layers of Loyalty in Latin panegyric, AD 289-307 (Oxford, 2002)

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