At the limits of art : a literary study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi logoi
Downie, JanetAuthor
'At the Limits of Art' investigates the literary aspirations of Aelius Aristides' puzzling dream-memoir of illness and divine healing, the 'Hieroi logoi'.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'At the Limits of Art' investigates the literary aspirations of Aelius Aristides' puzzling dream-memoir of illness and divine healing, the 'Hieroi logoi'.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 26, 2013).
Introduction: an author in search of a character -- Hieroi logoi: the god in the text  -- Dream description and dream hermeneutics -- Salvum lotum! a rhetor's improvised baths -- A prose hymn for Asclepius? -- "Immunity" and a literary afterlife.
Aristides, Aelius.
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