{"id":1440,"date":"2023-03-02T00:27:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2024-09-30T21:40:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T21:40:21","slug":"in-praise-of-asclepius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/en\/in-praise-of-asclepius\/","title":{"rendered":"SAPERE XXIX: In Praise of Asclepius"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SAPERE XXIX: In Praise of Asclepius<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In Praise of Asclepius. Selected Prose Hymns, introduced, translated and with interpretative essays by Donald A. Russell \/ Christian Brockmann \/ Milena Melfi \/ Heinz-G\u00fcnther Nesselrath \/ Robert Parker \/ Florian Steger \/ Michael Trapp, T\u00fcbingen 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the middle decades of the second century AD, the acclaimed orator Aelius Aristides wrote a number (eight in all) of prose hymns to traditional Greek gods and thereby demonstrated that the cults of these gods had not yet become obsolete and were more than just a topic of backward-looking paideia. This volume presents four of these texts, specifically those that focus on the god of healing, Asclepius, together with a new edition of the Greek text, a new English translation with commentary, and a number of essays shedding additional light on these texts from various perspectives. All in all, the volume wants to show how in these texts of Aristides the author&#8217;s rhetorical skills, his outlook on the world and his personal religiosity come together to form a remarkable whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Russell, Donald A.; Trapp, Michael; Brockmann, Christian; Melfi, Milena; Parker, Robert; Russell, Donald A.; Steger, Florian; Nesselrath, Heinz-G\u00fcnther<br><\/strong>Composite volume; English, Ancient Greek<br>Published: 2016<br>Publisher: Mohr Siebeck Verlag: T\u00fcbingen<br>DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.26015\/adwdocs-1488<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sdm_download_button_box_default\"><div class=\"sdm_download_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/en\/?sdm_process_download=1&#038;download_id=3147\" class=\"sdm_download darkblue\" title=\"SAPERE XXIX: In Praise of Asclepius\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Download here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle decades of the second century AD, the acclaimed orator Aelius Aristides wrote a number (eight in all) of prose hymns to traditional Greek gods.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aelius-aristides"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3168,"href":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}