Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780674996748
Series Statement:
Loeb Classical Library 521
Content:
Philostratus's writings embody the height of the renaissance of Greek literature in the second century CE. Heroicus is a vineyard conversation about the beauty, continuing powers, and worship of the Homeric heroes. Gymnasticus is the sole surviving ancient treatise on sports, which reshapes conventional ideas about the athletic body, In the writings of Philostratus (ca. 170-ca. 250 CE), the renaissance of Greek literature in the second century CE reached its height. His Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Lives of the Sophists, and Imagines reconceive in different ways Greek religion, philosophy, and art in and for the world of the Roman Empire. In this volume, Heroicus and Gymnasticus, two works of equal creativity and sophistication, together with two brief Discourses (Dialexeis), complete the Loeb edition of his writings. Heroicus is a conversation in a vineyard amid ruins of the Protesilaus shrine (opposite Troy on the Hellespont), between a wise and devout vinedresser and an initially skeptical Phoenician sailor, about the beauty, continuing powers, and worship of the heroes. With information from his local hero, the vinedresser reveals unknown stories of the Trojan campaign especially featuring Protesilaus and Palamedes, and describes complex, miraculous, and violent rituals in the cults of Achilles. Gymnasticus is the sole surviving ancient treatise on sports. It reshapes conventional ideas about the athletic body and expertise of the athletic trainer and also explores the history of the Olympic Games and other major Greek athletic festivals, portraying them as distinctive venues for the display of knowledge
Note:
Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674996748
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Philostratus, Flavius, 160 - 245 Heroicus Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard Univ. Press, 2014 ISBN 0674996747
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674996748
Additional Edition:
Print version Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century Heroicus. Gymnasticus. Discourses 1 and 2 Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 2014
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Philostratus, Flavius 160-245 Heroicus
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Philostratus, Flavius 160-245 De gymnastica
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Philostratus, Flavius 160-245 Disputationes
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Dialogues, Greek
Author information:
Philostratus, Flavius 160-245
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