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 Info | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. |
| Description | xxxiii, 569 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [512]-560) and index |
| LCCN | 2008297064 |
| ISBN | 9780521859820 |
| ISBN | 0521859824 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | DG300 .S48 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |