In Praise of Asclepius
Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns
Robert Parker author Florian Steger author Christian Brockmann author Milena Melfi author Heinz-Günther Nesselrath editor Michael Trapp editor Donald A Russell editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)
Published:24th Aug '16
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
ISBN: 9783161536595
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 379g
174 pages