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In Praise of Asclepius - Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns (Hardcover)
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In Praise of Asclepius - Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns (Hardcover)
Series: Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia, XXIX
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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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