Aelius Aristides Between Greece, Rome, and the Gods - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004172041 ISBN 13 : 9789004172043

Editeur : Brill, 2008

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

W.V. Harris is Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University and Director of the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean. His book Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity will be published by Harvard University Press in 2009.
Brooke Holmes, who took her first degree at Columbia, is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Her first book, The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Body in Ancient Greece, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004172041
• ISBN 13: 9789004172043
• Reliure: Cuir/luxe
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Éditeur: Harris William V., Holmes Brooke
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