Publications

Volume 46.2 of the journal Arethusa, ‘Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity’, edited by Bruce Gibson and Roger Rees, was published in 2013. The volume includes six papers from the project’s first conference, ‘Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity’, held in St Andrews in May 2009, and a further two contributions. Roy Gibson, John Henderson and Gavin Kelly feature as guest contributors alongside the project team.

Diederik Burgersdijk, ‘Pliny’s Panegyricus and the Historia Augusta’, Arethusa Special Edition, Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity (ed. Gibson and Rees,2013)

Pilar Garcia Ruiz ‘The evolution of the political image of emperor Julian through consular speeches: Mamertinus’ Pan.III(11) and Libanius Or.XII’ Minerva 21 (2008) 137-53

Pilar Garcia Ruiz ‘Una lectura de la gratiarum actio de Claudio Mamertino a la luz de los primeros escritos de Juliano’ Emerita 76 (2008) 443-64

Pilar Garcia Ruiz ‘Rethinking the political role of Pliny’s Panegyricus in the Panegyrici Latini’,Arethusa Special Edition, Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity (ed. Gibson and Rees, 2013)

Bruce Gibson, ‘Unending praise: Pliny and ending panegyric’, in D.H. Berry and A. Erskine (eds.), Form and Function in Roman Oratory (Cambridge UP, 2010) 122-36

Bruce Gibson, ‘Contemporary contexts' in P. Roche (ed.), Pliny’s Praise. The Panegyricus in the Roman World (Cambridge UP 2011) 104-24

Bruce Gibson, ‘Managing the Past: Plinian Strategies in the Panegyrici Latini’, Arethusa Special Edition, Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity (ed. Gibson and Rees, 2013)

Bruce Gibson and Roger Rees ‘Introduction’, Arethusa Special Edition, Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity (ed. Gibson and Rees, 2013)

Roger Rees, ‘Latin panegyric’ in W. Dominik and J. Hall (eds.) A Handbook of Roman Rhetoric (Blackwell, 2007) 136-48

Roger Rees, ‘Letters of recommendation and the rhetoric of praise’ in A. Morrison and R. Morello (eds.) Ancient Letters. Classical and late Antique Epistolography  (Oxford UP 2007) 149-68

Roger Rees, ‘Form and function of narrative in Roman panegyrical oratory’ in D. Berry and A. Erskine (eds.) Form and Function in Roman Oratory (Cambridge UP, 2010) 105-21

Roger Rees, ‘Laudes domini and the rhetoric of praise’ QUCC (2010) 71-84

Roger Rees, ‘Words of praise’ Millennium 7 (2010) 9-28

Roger Rees, ‘The whole truth? laudationes in the courtroom’ in C.J. Smith and R. Covino (eds.) Praise and Blame in the Late Republic (Classical Press of Wales 2011) 83-98

Roger Rees, ‘Afterwords of praise’ in P. Roche (ed.) Pliny’s Praise. The Panegyricus in the Roman World (Cambridge UP 2011) 175-88

Roger Rees, ‘The modern history of the Panegyrici Latini’ in Latin Panegyric (ed.), Oxford University Press (Oxford 2012) 3-48

Roger Rees, ‘Bright lights, big city. Rome and the Panegyrici Latini’ in G. Kelly and L. Grig (eds.) Two Romes. From Rome to Constantinople (Oxford, 2012) 203-22

Roger Rees, ‘The look of the Late Antique Emperor and the art of praise’ in Lovatt, H. and Vout. C (eds.) Epic Visions. Visuality in Greejk and Latin Epic and its Reception (Cambridge 2013) 99-121

Roger Rees, ‘Pacatus the poet doing Plinian prose’, Arethusa Special Edition, Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity (ed. Gibson and Rees, 2013)

Roger Rees, ‘The lousy reputation of Piso’ in The Julio-Claudian Succession. Reality and Perception of the ‘Augustan model’ A.G.G.Gibson (ed.) (Brill, 2013) 95-106

Roger Rees, ‘Adopting the emperor: praise-giving as cultural appropriation’, in Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing. Double Vision. J.M. Madsen and R.D. Rees (eds) ; Impact of Empire Series, vol.18 Brill, Leiden, 2014, 105-123

Catherine Ware, ‘Ulpia progenies: from Trajan to Honorius in Claudian’s Speculum Principis’, Arethusa Special Edition, Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity (ed. Gibson and Rees, 2013)

C. Ware, ‘The Severitas of Constantine: Imperial Virtues in Panegyrici Latini 7(6) and 6(7)’ JLA 7 (2014) 86-109

Roger Rees, ‘From alterity to unity in Pacatus Drepanius’ panegyric to Theodosius’ Talanta 45 (2013) [2015] 41-53

R.D. Rees, 'Ghosts of authors past in Claudian's De Bello Gildonico' in Lucan and Claudian: Context and Intertext. Berlincourt, V., Galli Milic, L. & Nelis, D. (eds.). Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 2016 pp.127-145

Rees, R. D. 'Authorising freedom of speech under Theodosius' in
Imagining Emperors. Burgersdijk, D. & Ross, A. (eds.). Brill, 2018 p. 289-309

Rees, R. D. ' Panegyric' in  A Companion to Late Antique Literature. McGill, S. & Watts, E. (eds.). Wiley, 2018 p. 209-220

C. Ware, ‘Constantine, the Tetrarchy and the Emperor Augustus’ in Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire Burgersdijk, D. & Ross, A. (eds.). Brill, 2018 pp.113-136

R.D. Rees, ‘A hall of mirrors: the Panegyricus and the Panegyrici’ in G Roskam and S. Schorn (eds.) Concepts of Ideal Rulership from Antiquity to the Renaissance (LECTIO 7, Turnhout 2018)m ) pp.255-291

B.J. Gibson, ‘Gratitude to Gratian: Ausonius’ Thanksgiving for his Consulship’ in Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire Burgersdijk, D. & Ross, A. (eds.). Brill, 2018 pp.270-288