Aelius Aristides (AD 117-181) may not be the most respected of the Greek orators, but the extent of his surviving works provides a vital window into the history of Greek culture in the
second-century Roman Empire. Harris (history, Columbia U.) and Holmes (classics, Princeton U.) present 14 papers from an April 2007 conference exploring the works of Aristides. Topics include
Aristides and early Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poetry, Aristides' use of myths, Aristides and the Greek pantomimes, bathing and oratory in Aristides' Hieros Logos I and Oration 33, body
and landscape in Aristides The Sacred Tales, Aristides and Plutarch on self-praise, Aristides and the politics of Rome, and Aristides' reception at Byzantium. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc.,
Portland, OR (booknews.com)
