Severan culture

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007

Subject:

Latin literature - History and criticism
Art, Roman
Rome - History - Severans, 193-235
Rome - Intellectual life
Rome - Religion

Contributor:

Swain, Simon
Harrison, S. J
Elsner, Jaś

ISBN:

9780521859820, 0521859824, 9780521859820 (cloth), and 0521859824 (cloth)

Description:

xxxiii, 569 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [512]-560) and index

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

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

DG300 .S48 2007

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