Research Catalog

Title

Severan culture / Edited by Simon Swain, Stephen Harrison, Jaś Elsner.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Swain, Simon.
• Harrison, S. J.
• Elsner, Jaś.

Description

xxxiii, 569 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Rome > History > Severans, 193-235

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [512]-560) and index

Contents

Letter of Philostratus to Longinus / Donald Russell -- Preface and Bibliography of Ewen Bowie / Stephen Harrison and Simon Swain -- Introduction / Simon Swain -- Part I. Literature and Culture: 1. Prose literature and the Severan dynasty / Tim Whitmarsh -- 2. Severan historiography: evidence, patterns and arguments / Harry Sidebottom -- 3. The worlds of Nestor the Poet / John Ma -- 4. Sex lives of the sophists: epigrams by Philostratus and Fronto / Gideon Nisbet -- 5. The Cynegetica attributed to Oppian / Mary Whitby -- 6. Greek athletics in the Severan period: literary views / Jason König -- 7. Heracles, Prometheus, and the play of genres in [Lucian's] Amores / Judith Mossman -- 8. Allegory and narrative in Heliodorus / Glenn Most -- 9. Polyphony or Babel? : Hosidius Geta's Medea and the poetics of the cento / Philip Hardie -- 10. Unfair to Caecilius? : Ciceronian dialogue techniques in Minucius / Felix Jonathan Powell -- 11. Cyprian's Ad Donatum / Michael Winterbottom -- Part II. Art and Architecture: 12. Art at the crossroads? : themes and style in Severan art / Zahra Newby; 13. Landscape, transformation and divine epiphany / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis -- 14. Urbanism in the Severan empire / Andrew Wilson -- 15. Metaphor and identity in Severan architecture : the Septizodium at Rome between 'reality' and 'fantasy' / Edmund Thomas -- 16. Visibility and viewing on the Severan Marble Plan / Jennifer Trimble -- 17. Septimius Severus: the Augustan Emperor / Alison Cooley -- Part III. Religion and Philosophy: 18. Severan Christianity / Mark Edwards -- 19. Almsgiving for the pure of heart : continuity and change in early Christian teaching / Richard Finn -- 20. Tertullian on flesh, spirit and wives / Catherine Conybeare -- 21. Sophists and rabbis : Jews and their past in the Severan age / Joseph Geiger -- 22. Trouble in Snake-Town : interpreting an oracle from Hierapolis-Pamukkale / Ian Rutherford -- 23. Magic in the Severan period / Daniel Ogden -- 24. Philosophy, scholarship and the world of learning in the Severan period / Michael Trapp -- 25. Human autonomy and divine revelation in Origen / George Boys-Stones -- 26. Socrates in Christian and pagan writers of the Severan era / Christopher Taylor.

Call Number

JFF 08-176

ISBN

• 9780521859820
• 0521859824

OCLC

144225236

Title

Severan culture / Edited by Simon Swain, Stephen Harrison, Jaś Elsner.

Imprint

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [512]-560) and index

Added Author

Swain, Simon.

Harrison, S. J.

Elsner, Jaś.

Research Call Number

JFF 08-176