Severan culture / edited by Simon Swain, Stephen Harrison, Jaś Elsner.

Other author Swain, Simon.
Other author Harrison, S. J.
Other author Elsner, Jaś.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxxxiii, 569 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
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Contents Letter of Philostratus to Longinus / Donald Russell -- Preface and bibliography of Ewen Bowie / Stephen Harrison and Simon Swain -- Prose literature and the Severan dynasty / Tim Whitmarsh -- Severan historiography : evidence, patterns, and arguments / Harry Sidebottom -- The worlds of Nestor the Poet / John Ma -- Sex lives of the sophists : epigrams by Philostratus and Fronto / Gideon Nisbet -- The Cynegetica attributed to Oppian / Mary Whitby -- Greek athletics in the Severan period : literary views / Jason König -- Heracles, Prometheus, and the play of genres in (Lucian's) Amores / Judith Mossman -- Allegory and narrative in Heliodorus / Glenn Most -- Polyphony or Babel? : Hosidius Geta's Medea and the poetics of the cento / Philip Hardie -- Unfair to Caecilius? : Ciceronian dialogue techniques in Minucius Felix / Jonathan Powell -- Cyprian's Ad Donatum / Michael Winterbottom -- Art at the crossroads? : themes and style in Severan art / Zahra Newby -- Landscape, transformation, and divine epiphany / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis -- Urban development in the Severan empire / Andrew Wilson -- Metaphor and identity in Severan architecture : the Septizodium at Rome between "reality" and "fantasy" / Edmund Thomas -- Visibility and viewing on the Severan Marble Plan / Jennifer Trimble -- Septimius Severus : the Augustan emperor / Alison Cooley -- Severan Christianity / Mark Edwards -- Almsgiving for the pure of heart : continuity and change in early Christian teaching / Richard Finn -- Tertullian on flesh, spirit, and wives / Catherine Conybeare -- Sophists and rabbis : Jews and their past in the Severan age / Joseph Geiger -- Trouble in Snake-Town : interpreting an oracle from Hierapolis-Pamukkale / Ian Rutherford -- Magic in the Severan period / Daniel Ogden -- Philosophy, scholarship, and the world of learning in the Severan period / Michael Trapp -- Human autonomy and divine revelation in Origen / George Boys-Stones -- Socrates under the Severans / Christopher Taylor.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [512]-560) and index
LCCN 2008297064
ISBN9780521859820
ISBN0521859824

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Joyner General Stacks DG300 .S48 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold