{"title":"Books by Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780674996465","title":"Orations, Volume I L533","description":"Meticulous eloquence.   Publius 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 Sacred Tales,  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.   This edition of Aristides’ complete works 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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294038700405,"sku":"9780674996465","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674996465_17a9c1ad-b599-431f-82cc-75bd70e5b6a6.jpg?v=1786015176"},{"product_id":"9780674997363","title":"Orations, Volume II","description":"Meticulous eloquence.   Publius 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 Sacred Tales, 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.   This edition of Aristides’ complete works offers fresh translations and texts based on the critical editions of Lenz-Behr (Orations 1–16) and Keil (Orations 17–53). Volume II contains Oration 3 (In Defense of the Four) and Oration 4, (A Reply to Capito), which along with Oration 2 take issue with the attack on orators and oratory delivered in Plato’s Gorgias.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294048596341,"sku":"9780674997363","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674997363_0448431c-e602-4d94-88c3-1b49786cc095.jpg?v=1786015223"},{"product_id":"orations-volume-iii","title":"Orations, Volume III","description":"Meticulous eloquence.   Publius 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 Sacred Tales, 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.   This edition of Aristides’ complete works offers fresh translations and texts based on the critical editions of Lenz-Behr (Orations 1–16) and Keil (Orations 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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499389657461,"sku":"9780674997806","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674997806.jpg?v=1792424407"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-publius-aelius-aristides-theodorus.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}