IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1109: Political Authority in Late Antiquity, II: Late Latin Poetry
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Postgraduate & Early-Career Late Antiquity Network |
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| Organiser: | Ben Kybett, Department of Classics University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Richard Flower, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter |
| Paper 1109-a | The Mutilated Page: Authoritative Torture and Archival Fantasy in Late Latin Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 1109-b | Julian's 'Letter to the Athenians' and the Creation of Imperial Authority (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1109-c | The Queen and the Poet: Female Authority in Venantius Fortunatus' Poems on Radegund (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Late Latin Poetry often extols its author's views of authority and legitimacy. This session will explore ideas of imperial authority as found within late Roman poetry of Claudian and Venantius Fortunatus. The first paper (Kirsh) explores depictions of household management and within late Latin poetry. The second paper (Holm) considers how the Emperor Julian had to defend his militaristic decision-making in order to legitimise his own imperial authority through the circulation of his 'Letter to the Athenians'. The final paper, (Castelnuovo), considers the relationship between Fortunatus and his patroness and his formation of her new imperial authority |