{"product_id":"orations-volume-iii-1","title":"Orations, Volume III","description":"\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 III contains all of Aristides’ extant declamations, an immensely popular and prestigious form of elite entertainment from the first century AD onward.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57260891373912,"sku":"9780674997806","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674997806_f6fc4b45-a67d-4ba8-9ef9-2376d224da59.jpg?v=1778826681","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/orations-volume-iii-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}