Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the Gods
Biographical note
W.V. Harris is Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University and Director of the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean. His book Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity will be published by Harvard University Press in 2009.
Brooke Holmes, who took her first degree at Columbia, is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Her first book, The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Body in Ancient Greece, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
Brooke Holmes, who took her first degree at Columbia, is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Her first book, The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Body in Ancient Greece, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
Readership
All those interested in the Greeks and Greek culture under Roman rule, the Second Sophistic, the worship of Asclepius, the history of ancient medicine and the late-antique and Byzantine after-life of classical rhetoric.
Reviews
"This volume fills a gap that has been allowed to develop in the scholarly literature and provides a detailed portrait of one of antiquity's most entertaining figures. Though the core market is undoubtedly those with an interest in the Second Sophistic, the range of the papers ensure that this volume will appeal to classicists with a more general curiosity concerning Aristides" (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, July 2009).
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