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Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the gods /

Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the gods / edited by W.V. Harris, Brooke Holmes. - 1 online resource. - Brill eBook titles 2008 . - Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 33. Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2008, ISBN: 9789004222793. .

"Papers given at a conference organized ... by the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University on April 13th and 14th, 2007"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-317) and index.

Preliminary Materials / Introduction / Chapter One. Aristides And Early Greek Lyric, Elegiac And Iambic Poetry / Chapter Two. Aelius Aristides And Thucydides: Some Remarks About The Panathenaic Oration / Chapter Three. Aristides’ Uses Of Myths / Chapter Four. Aristides And The Pantomimes / Chapter Five. Aelius Aristides’ Illegible Body / Chapter Six. Proper Pleasures: Bathing And Oratory In Aelius Aristides’ Hieros Logos I And Oration 33 / Chapter Seven. The Body In The Landscape: Aristides’ Corpus In Light Of The Sacred Tales / Chapter Eight. Aristides And Plutarch On Self-Praise / Chapter Nine. Aelius Aristides And Rome / Chapter Ten. The Encomium On Rome As A Response To Polybius’ Doubts About The Roman Empire / Chapter Eleven. Aelius Aristides And Rhodes: Concord And Consolation / Chapter Twelve. Aristides’ First Admirer / Chapter Thirteen. Vying With Aristides In The Fourth Century: Libanius And His Friends / Chapter Fourteen. Aelius Aristides’ Reception At Byzantium: The Case Of Arethas / Bibliography / Index / W.V. Harris and Brooke Holmes -- W.V. Harris -- Ewen Bowie -- Estelle Oudot -- Suzanne Saїd -- G.W Bowersock -- Brooke Holmes -- Janet Downie -- Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis -- Dana Fields -- Laurent Pernot -- Francesca Fontanella -- Carlo Franco -- Christopher Jones -- Raffaella Cribiore -- Luana Quattrocelli -- W.V. Harris and Brooke Holmes -- W.V. Harris and Brooke Holmes.

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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.

9789047425366

10.1163/ej.9789004172043.i-326 DOI

2008044210


Aristides, Aelius--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

PA3874.A7 / Z5 2008

885/.01