In Praise of Asclepius Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns /
Karl-Heinz Nesselrath, Michael Trapp, Donald A. Russell.
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In the second century AD Aelius Aristides wrote eight prose hymns to Greek gods. This volume presents a new edition of the Greek text of four of these hymns (focusing on Asclepius), a new English translation with notes, and a number of essays shedding additional light on these texts from various perspectives.