Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) : facsimiles |
Series |
Columbia studies in the classical tradition, 0166-1302 ; v. 33 |
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Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; v. 33.
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Contents |
Aristides and early Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poetry / Ewen Bowie -- Aelius Aristides and Thucydides: some remarks about the Panathenaic oration / Estelle Oudot -- Aristides' uses of myths / Suzanne Saïd -- Aristides and the pantomimes / G.W. Bowersock -- Aelius Aristides' illegible body / Brooke Holmes -- Proper pleasures: bathing and oratory in Aelius Aristides' Hieros logos I and Oration 33 / Janet Downie -- The body in the landscape: Aristides' Corpus in the light of The sacred tales / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis |
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Aristides and Plutarch on self-praise / Dana Fields -- Aelius Aristides and Rome / Laurent Pernot -- The encomium on Rome as a response to Polybius' doubts about the Roman Empire / Francesca Fontanello -- Aelius Aristides and Rhodes: Concord and consolation / Carlo Franco -- Aristides' first admirer / Christopher Jones -- Vying with Aristides in the fourth century: Libanius and his friends / Raffaella Cribiore -- Aelius Aristides' reception at Byzantium: the case of Arethas / Luana Quattrocelli |
Summary |
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 B |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-317) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
880-01 Aristides, Aelius -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
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SUBJECT |
880-01/(S Αίλιος Αριστείδης, 117-π. 189 -- Κριτική και ερμηνεία |
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Aristides, Aelius fast |
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Aristides, Aelius 117-187 gnd |
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Aristides, Aelius, 100-talet -- analys och tolkning -- konferenser. sao |
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Aristides, Aelius. swd |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Harris, William V. (William Vernon), author.
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Holmes, Brooke, 1976- author.
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LC no. |
2008044210 |
ISBN |
9789047425366 |
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9047425367 |
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1283061341 |
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9781283061346 |
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9786613061348 |
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6613061344 |
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