Research Catalog

Title

Orations / Aelius Aristides ; edited and translated by Michael Trapp.

Author

Aristides, Aelius

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2017-
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Trapp, Michael B.
• Aristides, Aelius.

Description

volumes; 17 cm.

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 works, prose hymns, and various essays, all of it displaying deep and creative familiarity with the classical literary heritage. He died between 180 and 185. This edition of Aristides, new to the Loeb Classical Library, offers fresh translations and texts based on the critical editions of Lenz-Behr (Orations 1-16) and Keil (Orations 17-53). Volume I contains the Panathenaic Oration, a historical appreciation of classical Athens and Aristides' most influential work, and A Reply to Plato, the first of three essays taking issue with the attack on orators and oratory delivered in Plato's Gorgias." -- Publisher's description
• "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 works, prose hymns, and various essays, all of it displaying deep and creative familiarity with the classical literary heritage. He died between 180 and 185. This edition of Aristides, new to the Loeb Classical Library, offers fresh translations and texts based on the critical editions of Lenz-Behr (Orations 1-16) and Keil (Orations 17-53). Volume I contains the Panathenaic Oration, a historical appreciation of classical Athens and Aristides' most influential work, and A Reply to Plato, the first of three essays taking issue with the attack on orators and oratory delivered in Plato's Gorgias."--

Series Statement

• Aelius Aristides ; I
• Loeb classical library ; LCL 533, LCL 545
• Aristides, Aelius. Works. English (Loeb classical library). 2017 ; 1.
• Aristides, Aelius. Works. Greek (Loeb classical library). 2017 ; 1.

Uniform Title

• Loeb classical library ; 533.
• Loeb classical library ; 545.

Alternative Title

Aelius Aristides, Orations

Subject

• Aristides, Aelius
• Orationes (Aristides, Aelius)
• Oratory, Ancient > Early works to 1800
• Oratory, Ancient
• Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Early works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from Ancient Greek with Greek and English translations on facing pages; introductory and critical matter in English.

Contents

Vol. I. Orations 1-2. Panathenaic oration -- A reply to Plato -- Vol. 2. Orations 3-4. A reply to Plato: In defense of the four -- A reply to Capito.

ISBN

• 9780674996465
• 0674996461
• 9780674997363
• 0674997360

LCCN

2016957656

OCLC

• ocn959649978
• 959649978
• SCSB-9722681

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries