ENNODIUS - PANEGYRIST OF THEODERIC THE GREAT
The paper presents the career and works of Ennodius, an educated member of the Gallo-Roman elite in the Ostrogothic kingdom of Theoderic the Great. Special attention is given to the specific features of the panegyric he wrote in honour of the king in 507. The author shows how the rhetoric by Ennodius could serve to prove the legitimate character of the power the Ostrogothic leader had over Italy.