An analysis of the earliest surviving invectives against a living Roman emperor and their significance for political and religious history.

Praise and blame in the Roman world -- Constructing a Christian tyrant -- Writing auto-hagiography -- Living up to the past.

The Roman Empire of the fourth century AD, ruled by the Emperor Constantine the Great, was a society marked by social, religious, and political transformation a

Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire offers new analysis of the textual depictions of a series of emperors in the fourth century within overlapping hist

Panegyric, the art of publicly praising prominent political figures, occupied an important place in the Roman Empire throughout late antiquity. Orators were ski