In Praise of Asclepius: Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns

In Praise of Asclepius: Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns
Format
Hardback
Publisher
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)
Country
Germany
Published
24 August 2016
Pages
174
ISBN
9783161536595

In Praise of Asclepius: Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns

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.

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