Philostratus's Heroikos
Subtitle: Religion and Cultural Identity in the Third Century C.E. (Writings from the Greco-Roman World) (Writings from the Greco-Roman World (Brill Academic Publishers))
Contributors: Ellen Bradshaw Aitken (Editor); Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean (Editor)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: March 2005
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9789004130944
Subjects: History of religion; Social history; the Athenian,; Philostratus,; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Dialogues, Greek; Religious; Religion; Philosophy; Sociology; Ancient Rome; History and criticism; History; Interior Design - General; Civilization, Greco-Roman, in literature; Trojan War; 2nd/3rd cent; Heroicus; Literature and the war
First sentence: In this essay, I explore the poetic, emotional, and ritual dimensions of hero cult as presented in Philostratus's Heroikos.