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In Praise of Asclepius: Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns

by Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath , Donald A. Russell , Michael Trapp
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9783161536595
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
  • Publisher Imprint: Mohr Siebeck
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 174
  • Original Price: GBP 56.1
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 381 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient / Greece

English summary: 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. German description: In den mittleren Jahrzehnten des 2. Jh.s n. Chr. schrieb der gefeierte Redner Aelius Aristides eine Reihe von Prosahymnen auf griechische Gotter und zeigte damit, dass der Kult dieser Gotter noch lebendig und keineswegs nur Gegenstand ruckwartsgewandter Paideia war. Der vorliegende Band prasentiert zu vier dieser Hymnen, die mit dem Heilgott Asklepios zu tun haben, eine neue Edition des griechischen Textes, eine neue Ubersetzung mit Kommentar und eine Reihe von Essays, die diese Texte aus verschiedenen Fachperspektiven beleuchten. Insgesamt mochte der Band zeigen, wie in diesen Texten die rhetorischen Fahigkeiten des Autors, seine Vorstellungen von der Welt und seine personliche Religiositat zusammenkommen, um ein bemerkenswertes Ganzes zu schaffen.

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