In Praise of Asclepius

doi:10.1628/978-3-16-156426-0

In Praise of Asclepius

Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns

Edited by Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Donald A. Russell and Michael Trapp in collaboration with Robert Parker, Christian Brockmann, Milena Melfi and Florian Steger

2016. 174 pages.

Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia (SAPERE) XXIX

DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-156426-0

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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.

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Robert Parker is Wykeham Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford.

Christian Brockmann is professor of Classical Philology (Greek Studies) at the University of Hamburg. His fields of research are Greek manuscripts, paleography, text-editions; Greek drama (Aristophanes); Plato; Aristotle; ancient medicine (Hippocrates, Galen).

Milena Melfi is a Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology (New College) at the University of Oxford and a curator of casts of Greek and Roman sculptures at the Ashmolean Museum. She has been a fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard), of the British and Italian Archaeological Schools in Athens and of the American Academy in Rome. She worked on surveys and excavations in Greece, Sicily, and Albania and specializes in the archaeology of ancient religion.

Florian Steger holds the chair of History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine at Ulm University and is director of the same-named institute. From 2011 to 2016 he held the chair of History and Ethics of Medicine at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. His main research fields are ancient medicine, the field of medicine and arts (esp. literature), injustice in medicine in totalitarian states and bioethics.

Heinz-Günther Nesselrath Geboren 1957; 1976-81 Studium der Klassischen Philologie und der Alten Geschichte an der UniversitÃ¤t zu KÃ¶ln; 1981 Promotion; 1987 Habilitation; 1992-2001 vollamtlicher Professor fÃ¼r Klass. Philologie an der UniversitÃ¤t Bern; seit 2001 UniversitÃ¤tsprofessor fÃ¼r Klass. Philologie an der Georg-August-UniversitÃ¤t GÃ¶ttingen.

Donald A. Russell Born 1920; professor of classical literature at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford; emeritus fellow and former tutor in classics at St John's College, Oxford.

Michael Trapp Geboren 1957; Promotion in Oxford; seit 1984 an der University of London, zuerst am Birkbeck College, seit 1989 Professor of Greek Literature & Thought am King's College.