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Heroicus / Philostratus ; e...
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.
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monografia Rebiun30201775 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun30201775 m o d cr#cn# 141025s2014 mau gob 00| s eng d 0-674-99674-7 MaCbHUP TLC rda eng LIT004190 bisacsh Filóstrato, Flavio the Athenian active 2nd century-3rd century) author Heroicus Philostratus ; edited and translated by Jeffrey Rusten and Jason K onig Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press 2014 Cambridge, MA Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press 1 online resource 1 online resource Text txt computer c online resource cr text file rda Loeb Classical Library 521 Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph Includes bibliographies and indexes 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 English Filóstrato, Flavio the Athenian active 2nd century-3rd century)- Translations into English Filóstrato, Flavio the Athenian active 2nd century-3rd century.) Protesilaus (Mythological character) Dialogues, Greek- Translations into English Gymnastics- Early works to 1800 Gymnastics Hero worship- Greece- Early works to 1800 Hero worship- Greece Héroes- Early works to 1800 Physical education and training- Early works to 1800 Physical education and training- Greece- Early works to 1800 Physical education and training- Greece Protesilaus (Greek mythology)- Early works to 1800 Trojan War- Early works to 1800 Dialogues, Greek Gymnastics Héroes Physical education and training Protesilaus (Greek mythology) Greece Dialogues, Greek- Translations into English Electronic books K onig, Jason editor translator Rusten, Jeffrey S. editor translator Gymnasticus Discourses 1 and 2