In Praise of Asclepius : Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns / Karl-Heinz Nesselrath, Michael Trapp, Donald A. Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aristides, Aelius, author.

Contributor:

Nesselrath, Karl-Heinz, editor.

Trapp, Michael, editor.

Russell, Donald A., editor.

Series:

Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia 5.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asklepios (Greek deity)--Early works to 1800.

Asklepios.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 pages)

Edition:

1. Aufl.

Place of Publication:

Mohr Siebeck 2016

Tubingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2016.

Language Note:

Original text in Greek, introduction, text, translation, commentary and essays in English.

Summary:

In the second century AD Aelius Aristides wrote eight prose hymns to Greek gods. This volume presents a new edition of the Greek text of four of these hymns (focusing on Asclepius), a new English translation with notes, and a number of essays shedding additional light on these texts from various perspectives.

Contents:

Texts, translations and notes / by Donald A. Russell. Or. 38. Asklēpiadai

Or. 39. Eis to phrear tou Asklēpiou

Or. 42. Lalia eis Asklēpion

Panēgyrikos tō hydati <tō> en Pergamō

Notes on the translations / Donald A. Russell, M. Melfi, H.-G. Nesselrath, R. Parker, M. Trapp.

Essays. Religion in the prose hyms / Robert Parker

The archaeology of the Asclepium of Pergamum / Milena Melfi

A god and two humans on matters of medicine : Asclepius, Galen and Aelius Aristides / Christian Brockmann

Aristides, patient of Asclepius in Pergamum / Florian Steger.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-16-156426-X