{"product_id":"9780674996465-orations-volume-i","title":"Orations, Volume I","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAelius Aristides (117–after 180), among the most versatile authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism, produced speeches and lectures, declamations on historical themes, polemical works, prose hymns, and essays on a wide variety of subjects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeticulous eloquence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublius Aelius Aristides  Theodorus was among the most celebrated, versatile, and influential  authors of the Second Sophistic era and an important figure in the  transmission of Hellenism. Born to wealthy landowners in Mysia in AD  117, he studied in Athens and Pergamum and had begun a promising  oratorical career when in the early 140s he fell chronically ill and  retreated to the healing shrine of Asclepius in Pergamum. There he began  to follow a lifelong series of dream revelations and instructions from  the god that inspired the six autobiographical books of \u003ci\u003eSacred Tales\u003c\/i\u003e,  an invaluable record of both temple therapy and personal religious  experience published in the 170s. By 147 Aristides was able to resume  his public activities as a member of the landed and gubernatorial elite  and to pursue a successful oratorical career. Based at his family estate  in Smyrna, he traveled between bouts of illness and produced speeches  and lectures for both public and private occasions, declamations on  historical themes, polemical works, prose hymns, and essays on a wide  variety of subjects, all of it displaying deep and creative familiarity  with the classical literary heritage. He died between 180 and 185.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition of Aristides’ complete works offers fresh translations and texts based on the critical editions of Lenz-Behr (\u003ci\u003eOrations\u003c\/i\u003e 1–16) and Keil (\u003ci\u003eOrations\u003c\/i\u003e 17–53). Volume I contains the \u003ci\u003ePanathenaic Oration\u003c\/i\u003e, a historical appreciation of classical Athens and Aristides’ most influential work, and \u003ci\u003eA Reply to Plato\u003c\/i\u003e, the first of three essays taking issue with the attack on orators and oratory delivered in Plato’s \u003ci\u003eGorgias\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451415703926,"sku":"9780674996465","price":24.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41273703.jpg?v=1779066417","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674996465-orations-volume-i","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}