0

In Praise of Asclepius

Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns, Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia XXIX

Brockmann, Christian/Melfi, Milena/Parker, Robert et al
Erschienen am 25.08.2016, 1. Auflage 2016
59,00 €
(inkl. MwSt.)

Lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

In den Warenkorb
Bibliografische Daten
ISBN/EAN: 9783161536595
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: X, 164 S.
Format (T/L/B): 1.8 x 23.8 x 15.3 cm
Einband: Leinen

Beschreibung

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.

Autorenportrait

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).