In Praise of Asclepius: Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns: XXIX (Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3161536592 ISBN 13: 9783161536595

Verlag: Mohr Siebeck, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

In the middle decades of the second century AD the acclaimed orator Aelius Aristides wrote a number of prose hymns to traditional Greek gods and thereby demonstrated that the cults of these gods had not yet become obsolete and were more than just a topic of backward-looking paideia. This volume presents four of these texts, specifically those that focus on the god of healing, Asclepius, together with a new edition of the Greek text, a new English translation with commentary, and a number of essays shedding additional light on these texts from various perspectives. All in all, the volume wants to show how in these texts of Aristides the author's rhetorical skills, his outlook on the world and his personal religiosity come together to form a remarkable whole.

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is professor of Classical Philology (Greek Studies) at the University of Hamburg. His fields of research are Greek manuscripts, paleography, text-editions; Greek drama (Aristophanes); Plato; Aristotle; ancient medicine (Hippocrates, Galen).

Born 1920; professor of classical literature at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford; emeritus fellow and former tutor in classics at St John's College, Oxford.

is a Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology (New College) at the University of Oxford and a curator of casts of Greek and Roman sculptures at the Ashmolean Museum. She has been a fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard), of the British and Italian Archaeological Schools in Athens and of the American Academy in Rome. She worked on surveys and excavations in Greece, Sicily, and Albania and specializes in the archaeology of ancient religion.

Geboren 1957; Promotion in Oxford; seit 1984 an der University of London, zuerst am Birkbeck College, seit 1989 Professor of Greek Literature & Thought am King's College.

is Wykeham Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mohr Siebeck
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3161536592
• ISBN 13: 9783161536595
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 174
• Herausgeber: Russell Donald A., Trapp Michael, Nesselrath Heinz-Günther
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