Society, Medicine and Religion in the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides
Biographical note
Ido Israelowich, D.Phil. (2008) in Ancient History, University of Oxford, is a lecturer of Classics at Tel Aviv University. He has published on various aspects of the work of Aristides and on medicine in the Graeco-Roman World.
Readership
All those interested in the history of the Roman Empire, Greek literature, religion, medicine, and Second Sophistic, as well as classical philologists.
Reviews
"Insgesamt ist Israelowich [...] für seine Arbeit zu danken. Die Gesamtaussage, dass es sich bei den Hieroi Logoi um ein Kind seiner Zeit handelt und das Werk in weit größerem Maße als bisher gedacht die medizinischen wie auch religiösen Gegebenheiten des 2. nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts widerspiegelt, ist richtig und wichtig. Insbesondere für künftige Forschungen zu den Heiligen Berichten sowie zur Medizingeschichte ist das Werk eine Bereicherung. Christian Fron in H-Soz-u-Kult, 6.5.2013
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