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"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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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Ancient Greek |
| Series: |
Loeb classical library ;
533 |
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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 w |
| Carrier Form: | xxxix, 670 pages ; 17 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674996465 (hardback) : 0674996461 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PA3874 |
| CLC: | H019 |
| Call Number: | H019/A715/v.1 |
| Contents: | 1. Panathenaic oration -- 2. A reply to Plato |