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CONTENTS
List of tables page vii
Preface ix
List of abbreviations xi
Chronological table xviii
Maps xxiii
1 embassies and political communication in the
post-imperial west 1
Introduction 1
The framework and conventions of embassies in
the classical world 11
Classical Greece 11
Republican and imperial Rome 17
Contemporary perspectives 26
2 the provincial view of hydatius 36
Hydatius and embassies 37
Patterns of contact 53
Gallaecian provincials and imperial and royal
authorities 55
Sueves and external affairs 63
Vandal diplomacy 67
Multiple embassies 70
A model of political communication in the barbarian
kingdoms 73
3 the hero as envoy: sidonius apollinaris’
panegyric on avitus 84
The circumstances of the Panegyric 87
Panegyric and propaganda 91
Themes and plotof the Panegyric 94
The portrayal of the envoy 108
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