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Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the Gods

By Brooke Holmes , W.V. Harris

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2009
ISBN
9004172041, 9789004172043
ISSN
0166-1302
LCC
PA3874.A7 Z5 2009
Google Books ID
lC2jH-6bhS8C
Open Library ID
OL22665219M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5841167 bytes)
Series
Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 33
Pages
341\341
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Wealthy, conceited, hypochondriac (or perhaps just an invalid), obsessively religious, the orator Aelius Aristides (117 to about 180) is not the most attractive figure of his age, but because he is one of the best-known - and he is intimately known, thanks to his "Sacred Tales" - his works are a vital source for the cultural and religious and political history of Greece under the Roman Empire. The papers gathered here, the fruit of a conference held at Columbia in 2007, form the most intense study of Aristides and his context to have been published since the classic work of Charles Behr forty years ago.

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