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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 B.
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monografia Rebiun04321292 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun04321292 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 110426s2008 ne h ob 101 0 eng d 9789047425366 9047425367 9789004172043 9004172041 UPVA 997920833203706 CBUC 991010883983206709 CBUC 991013147543606708 CBUC 991001014787406712 NT. eng. NT. E7B. OCLCQ. OCLCO. UIU. EBLCP. CUY. MERUC. UIU. OCLCQ. UNAV 885/.01 22 Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the gods Recurso electrónico] edited by W.V. Harris, Brooke Holmes Leiden Boston Brill 2008 Leiden Boston Leiden Boston Brill xiii, 322 p. facsims xiii, 322 p. EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete Columbia studies in the classical tradition, v. 33 "Papers given at a conference organized ... by the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University on April 13th and 14th, 2007"--Pref Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [295]-317) e índice Aristides and early Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poetry / Ewen Bowie -- Aelius Aristides and Thucydides: some remarks about the Panathenaic oration / Estelle Oudot -- Aristides' uses of myths / Suzanne Saïd -- Aristides and the pantomimes / G.W. Bowersock -- Aelius Aristides' illegible body / Brooke Holmes -- Proper pleasures: bathing and oratory in Aelius Aristides' Hieros logos I and Oration 33 / Janet Downie -- The body in the landscape: Aristides' Corpus in the light of The sacred tales / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis Aristides and Plutarch on self-praise / Dana Fields -- Aelius Aristides and Rome / Laurent Pernot -- The encomium on Rome as a response to Polybius' doubts about the Roman Empire / Francesca Fontanello -- Aelius Aristides and Rhodes: Concord and consolation / Carlo Franco -- Aristides' first admirer / Christopher Jones -- Vying with Aristides in the fourth century: Libanius and his friends / Raffaella Cribiore -- Aelius Aristides' reception at Byzantium: the case of Arethas / Luana Quattrocelli 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 B. Forma de acceso: World Wide Web Harris, William V. Holmes, Brooke 1976-)