In praise of Asclepius: selected prose hymns
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Elektronische Ressource
Publisher:
Mohr Siebeck
Ort:
Tübingen
Date:
2016
Language:
Englisch
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Abstract:
In den mittleren Jahrzehnten des 2. Jh.s n. Chr. schrieb der gefeierte Redner Aelius Aristides eine Reihe von Prosahymnen auf griechische Götter und zeigte damit, dass der Kult dieser Götter noch lebendig und keineswegs nur Gegenstand rückwärtsgewandter Paideia war. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert zu vier dieser Hymnen, die mit dem Heilgott Asklepios zu tun haben, eine neue Edition des griechischen Textes, eine neue Übersetzung mit Kommentar und eine Reihe von Essays, die diese Texte aus verschiedenen Fachperspektiven beleuchten. Insgesamt möchte der Band zeigen, wie in diesen Texten die rhetorischen Fähigkeiten des Autors, seine Vorstellungen von der Welt und seine persönliche Religiosität zusammenkommen, um ein bemerkenswertes Ganzes zu schaffen.
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.
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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Aelius Aristides ; introduction, text, translation and interpretative essays by Christian Brockmann, Milena Melfi, Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Robert Parker, Donald A. Russell, Florian Steger, Michael Trapp ; edited by Donald A. Russell, Michael Trapp, and Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
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