Orations, Volume I [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Aelius Aristides

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 0674996461
• ISBN13: 9780674996465
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 4.5" x 6.6"