Severan culture /
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2007.
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Table of 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.