Renovatio temporum. La nueva semántica del poder diárquico a través de sus panegíricos (289-291 d. C.)

Abstract

The laudatory nature of Latin Panegyrics has minimized their importance of this historical source due to the fact that the accuracy of the data is obviously decreased by their propaganda function. The aim of this paper is to analyze the narratives constructed and shape in panegyrics in order to legitimize the imperial power structure during the Diarchy, which, as can be observed, are not arbitrary or decorative references but a part of a political discourse with a full internal consistency driven by a imperial system that want to be self-represented as a break point in contrast to the former period: from an age dominated by chaos and fragmentation in roman institutional frame, to a new order based on a predestined and unitary political power.

Keywords

• latin panegyrics
• political theology
• divination
• late roman period
• imperial propaganda