Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the gods /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Description:	xiii, 322 p. : facsims. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Columbia studies in the classical tradition, 0166-1302 ; v. 33
Subject:	Aristides, Aelius -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses. Aristides, Aelius. Conference papers and proceedings. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7534968

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Other authors / contributors:	Harris, William V. (William Vernon) Holmes, Brooke, 1976-
ISBN:	9789004172043 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004172041 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:	"Papers given at a conference organized ... by the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University on April 13th and 14th, 2007"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-317) and index.

Table of Contents:

Abbreviations
Preface
Contributors
Introduction
Part 1. Aristides and the Literature of the Past
I. Aristides and Early Greek Lyric, Elegiac and Iambic Poetry
II. Aelius Aristides and Thucydides: Some Remarks About the Panathenaic Oration
III. Aristides' Uses of Myths
IV. Aristides and the Pantomimes
Part 2. Aristides' Self-Presentation
V. Aelius Aristides' Illegible Body
VI. Proper Pleasures: Bathing and Oratory in Aelius Aristides' Hieros Logos I and Oration 33
VII. The Body in the Landscape: Aristides' Corpus in the Light of The Sacred Tales
VIII. Aristides and Plutarch on Self-Praise
Part 3. Aristides and the Roman Empire of His Times
IX. Aelius Aristides and Rome
X. The Encomium on Rome as a Response to Polybius' Doubts About the Roman Empire
XI. Aelius Aristides and Rhodes: Concord and Consolation
Part 4. Reception
XII. Aristides' First Admirer
XIII. Vying with Aristides in the Fourth Century: Libanius and His Friends
XIV. Aelius Aristides' Reception at Byzantium: The Case of Arethas
Bibliography
Index

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