Orations / Aelius Aristides ; edited and translated by Michael Trapp.
"Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus was among the most celebrated authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism. Born to wealthy landowners in Mysia in 117, he studied in Athens and Pergamum before he fell chronically ill in the early 140s and retreate...
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| Other title: | Aelius Aristides, Orations. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
Harvard University Press,
2017-
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| Series: | Aristides, Aelius. Works. 2017 ;
1-2. Aristides, Aelius. Works. 2017 ; 1-2. Loeb classical library ; 533. Loeb classical library ; 545. |
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| Summary: | "Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus was among the most celebrated authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism. Born to wealthy landowners in Mysia in 117, he studied in Athens and Pergamum before he fell chronically ill in the early 140s and retreated to Pergamum's healing shrine of Asclepius. By 147 Aristides was able to resume his public activities and pursue a successful oratorical career. Based at his family estate in Smyrna, he traveled between bouts of illness and produced speeches and lectures, declamations on historical themes, polemical works, prose hymns, and various essays, all of it displaying deep and creative familiarity with the classical literary heritage. He died between 180 and 185. This edition of Aristides, new to the Loeb Classical Library, offers fresh translations and texts based on the critical editions of Lenz-Behr (Orations 1-16) and Keil (Orations 17-53)."-- |
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| Item Description: | Title from spine. Editor-translator statement from volume I title page. Volume numbering from dust jackets. |
| Physical Description: | volumes : illustrations ; 17 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780674996465 0674996461 9780674997363 0674997360 |
| Language: | Text in Ancient Greek with English translation on facing pages; introductory and critical matter in English. |