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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458951703321

Titolo

Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the gods [[electronic resource] /] / edited by W.V. Harris, Brooke Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008

ISBN

1-283-06134-1

9786613061348

90-474-2536-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Collana

Columbia studies in the classical tradition, , 0166-1302 ; ; v. 33

Altri autori (Persone)

HarrisWilliam V (William Vernon)

HolmesBrooke <1976->

Disciplina

885/.01

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Aristides and the literatures of the past -- pt. 2. Aristides' self-presentation -- pt. 3. Aristides and the Roman Empire of his times -- pt. 4. Reception.

Sommario/riassunto

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.