Aelius Aristides Between Greece, Rome, and the Gods (Leather) (ISBN-13: 9789004172043)

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Aelius Aristides Between Greece, Rome, and the Gods

$193.00

Aelius Aristides Between Greece, Rome, and the Gods

$193.00
Format: Leather
Description
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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 Behr forty years ago.

Author: William V. Harris
ISBN-10: 9004172041
ISBN-13: 9789004172043
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 11/27/2008
Pages: 326
Format: Leather
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.60w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 253
By William V. Harris
By William V. Harris
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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.

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