Panegyric
A panegyric (
Etymology
The word originated as a compound of
Classical Greece
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Roman Empire
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Towards the end of the 3rd and during the 4th century, as a result of the orientalizing of the Imperial court byCassiodorus, magister officiorum of Theodoric the Great, left a book of panegyrics, the Laudes. One of his biographers, James O'Donnell, has described the genre thus: "It was to be expected that the praise contained in the speech would be excessive; the intellectual point of the exercise (and very likely an important criterion in judging it) was to see how excessive the praise could be made while remaining within boundaries of decorum and restraint, how much high praise could be made to seem the grudging testimony of simple honesty".[3]
In the Byzantine Empire, the basilikos logos was a formal panegyric for an emperor delivered on an important occasion.[4]
Arabic
Panegyric poems were a major literary form among the Arabs. Writing in the Arabic language, Al-Mutanabbi wrote about Sayf al-Dawla's celebrated campaign against the Byzantine Empire.[5]
Persia
In a panegyric poem address to Mahmud of Ghazna,
Africa
African
Examples include
Modern revival
The custom of panegyrics addressed to monarchs was revived in the
References
- ^ a b c d e f Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 676–677.
- ^ "pan-, comb. form", "panegyris, n.", "panegyric, n. and adj.", OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2017. Web. 19 March 2017.
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- ^ a b G.E. Tetley. The Ghaznavid and Seljuk Turks: Poetry as a Source for Iranian History. Taylor & Francis. p. 2.
- ^ G. E. Tetley. The Ghaznavid and Seljuk Turks: Poetry as a Source for Iranian History. Taylor & Francis. p. 1.
- ^ Johnson, Samuel (1921), The History of the Yorubas from the earliest times to the beginning of the British protectorate, p. 85
- ^ Turner, Noleen (1994). "A brief overview of Zulu oral traditions" (PDF). Alternation. 1 (1): 58–67. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
- ^ "African Voices". Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2022.