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Record Nr.

UNISA996209971503316

Autore

Downie Janet

Titolo

At the limits of art : a literary study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi logoi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-19-934564-3

0-19-992487-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

885/.01

Soggetti

History

Western World

Religion

Civilization

Humanities

Culture

Anthropology, Cultural

Anthropology

Social Sciences

Greek World

Religion and Medicine

History of Medicine

History, Ancient

Roman World

Languages & Literatures

Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: an author in search of a character -- Hieroi logoi: the god in the text  -- Dream description and dream hermeneutics -- Salvum lotum! a rhetor's improvised baths -- A prose hymn for Asclepius? -- "Immunity" and a literary afterlife.

Sommario/riassunto

'At the Limits of Art' investigates the literary aspirations of Aelius Aristides' puzzling dream-memoir of illness and divine healing, the



'Hieroi logoi'.