At the limits of art : a literary study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi logoi /

At the limits of art : a literary study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi logoi /

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Author / Creator:Downie, Janet.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Description:x, 223 pages ; 25 cm
Language:English
Ancient Greek
Subject:
Aristides, Aelius. -- Sacred teachings.
Sacred teachings (Aristides, Aelius)
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9268696
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ISBN:9780199924875 (hbk.)
0199924872 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Text includes paragraphs in Ancient Greek with an English translation.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: An Author in Search of a Character
  • 1. Hieroi Logoi: The God in the Text
  • 2. Dream Description and Dream Hermeneutics
  • 3. Salvum Lotum! A Rhetor's Improvised Baths
  • 4. A Prose Hymn for Asclepius?
  • 5. "Immunity" and Aristides' Literary Afterlife
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum

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