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Sogno e medicina nell’Asclepieo di Pergamo
2009
The article discusses the main aspects of the onirical therapy in Greek theurgical medicine, practised, as well known, in Asclepius' temples all over Greek territor ies. Iamata, written sources and chronicles fournish reliable testimonies of activities performed in the sacred structures, most of which concerning the reading and interpretations of dreams. A privileged witness of these practices is Aelius Aristides, in the Ieroi Logoi describing the particular link connecting his psychological and metaphorical diseases to the divine power of Asclepius, revealing his healing terrific capacitis mainly through therapeutic dreams
Self-portrait of an Orator as a Poet : images and Poetic references in Aelius Aristides' work
2022
Aelius Aristides is one of the major representatives of the Second Sophistic : his speeches are exemplary of the development of epidictic rhetoric in the imperial period. Everything in his work, including what he himself says on the subject, gives the image of an orator devoted body and soul to rhetoric and confident in the powers of prose. This is also the portrait that most studies since the 19th century have confirmed.However, poetry plays an important role in Aristide's speeches : they contain many poetic images and references. Moreover, Aristide writes poems and gives us fragments of them. He does not hesitate to refer to his own verses in speeches from both the beginning and the end o…
Histoire d’Athènes, espace égéen et Empire romain : les logiques spatiales d’Aelius Aristide
2019
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Ultime défaite d’Athènes ou sa plus belle victoire ? Stratégies rhétoriques autour de la bataille d’Aigos-Potamoi dans le Panathénaïque d’Aelius Aris…
2017
It may seem somewhat odd to study the way by which the defeat of Aigos-Potamoi is described in a discourse which is an utter praise of the excellence of Athens as is the Panathenaic Oration of Aelius Aristides. Nevertheless, the account of this event (§ 252-263) is significant. Thanks to two successive rhetorical stratagems (move to the Thirty episode and comparison with Marathon), the battle of Aigos-Potamoi is concealed as a defeat and changed into victory. Besides, this defeat is both anticipated and extended through the oration. Upstream, it makes clear a special feature in the discourse’s organisation (the reason why Aristides chooses a comparative point of view, which suddenly breaks …