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Achilles, 1 204, 207, 246, 279; and sacrifice, Aelius Aristides, and Attic Greek, 97–98; self-praise by, 160–167, 34, 261, 264, 292;useofconcept 269–270, 279; sexuality of, 118; ‘barbarian’, 2, 93;andbathing, Stoic influence on, 204–205, 208– chapter VI passim, 109–111; 210; as teacher of rhetoric, 275– and the body, 82–85, 89–91, 277 109–113, 131–132, 138, 140;and Oration I: 31–49, 191–193 Byzantine authors, 281–293; Oration II: 16, 193–195, 273 and Christians, 100–101, 106– Oration III: 16 107, 179, 200–201, 289, 291– Oration IV: 186–187 292; conceit of, 4–5, 263, 273; Oration V: 195–196 and contemporary medicine, Orations XI–XV: 58 84–86, 104–106; detachment Oration XVI: 1–3, 16 from civic life, 169–171, 182– Oration XXIII: 107 185; and ‘defilement’, 120–121; Oration XXIV: 238–248 and divine inspiration, 94–95, Oration XXV: 218–237 163–166;dreamsof,4, 83, 84– Oration XXVI: 2–3, 47–48, 144, 85, 86–98, 103, 116–121, 127– 145, 188–190, 203–216 128, 129, 135–137, 139, 149–150, Oration XXVII: 131–150 164; ekphrasis by, 132–135, 142– Oration XXVIII: 18–21, 160–163, 143; ‘figured speech’ in, 2, 185– 165–167, 187, 255 197; Greek identity of, 199;and Oration XXIX: 275 the historians, 31–49, 203–216, Oration XXX: 276–277 261–262; humour(lessness) of, Oration XXXI: 277 5; ‘hypochondria’ of, 4, 84;and Oration XXXIII: 116, 119, 123– ‘immunity’, 123; his journeys, 127, 129–130, 187, 271, 272, 136–137, 139, 141; and landscape, 275–276, 279 Chapter VII passim;andmyths, Oration XXXIV: 60, 75, 273 Chapter III passim; narcissism of, Oration XXXVI: 141 3; compares self with Odysseus, Oration XXXVII: 255 112, 138, 141;andOldComedy, Oration XL: 17 261; and oratory, 45–46, 66, 123– Oration XLII: 107 126, 130, 131, 136–137, 267–268, Oration XLV: 16 277–278; and the pantomimes, Orations XLVII–LII (Hieroi Logoi, Chapter IV passim; popularity of, Sacred Tales): 127, 130, 131, 135– 5, 280–281, 293; portraits of, 266– 140 267; and regeneration, 104–105, Oration XLVII: 81, 90, 91, 93, 107–108; religiosity of, 3–4, 82, 95, 104–105,chapterVIpassim, 111–112, 131, 150, 178–185, 199– 178–180, 287–288 201, 291–292;andtheRoman Oration XLVIII: 87–88, 98, 110– Empire, 43–44, 47–48, 178–201, 112, 128, 164, 288 320 index

Oration XLIX: 106, 108, 288, 290 Commodus, 257 Oration L: 93, 95, 183–184, 164, consolation orations, 218, 220, 235– 165, 280, 288 236 Oration LI: 96–97, 131, 135–138, Cribiore, R., 2, 5 181, 269, 276, 280 L. Cuspius Pactumeius Rufinus, 260, Thersites (lost): 264–265 262 agonistic culture, 154, 166–167, 171, Cyzicus, 131–138 218–219, 228–229, 232, 269–270 Alcaeus, 10 Damianus of Ephesus, 181 Alcman, 10–11 dancing, 60–61, 73–74; and see pan- Alexander of Cotiaeum, 178 tomimes Alexander of Seleuceia, 256 death, 125–126 alousia (abstention from bathing), Demetrius Poliorcetes, 226–227 119–123, 125, 128, 130 Demosthenes, 161, 264–265, 293 Ammianus Marcellinus, 235 Dierkens, J., 118 Anacreon, 13, 14 Dindorf, G., 219 Antonine plague, 87, 126 Dio of Prusa, 12–14, 51, 56, 154, 177, Apollonius of Tyana, 122 200, 226, 228, 240, 242, 245–246 Apsines, 185, 280 Diodorus Siculus, 246–247 , 11–12, 13–14, 15 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 210 Arethas, 279–293 Dionysius Periegetes, 48 Ariphron, 15 dreams, 89; and see Aelius Aristides Aristophanes, 9, 261 dunamis (power), 34–37, 47 Aristotle, 209, 211, 246 Artemidorus Daldianus, 76, 120–121, Epidaurian miracle tablets, 103 122 Eunapius, 271, 281 Asclepieion at Pergamum, 108, 255, 259 Ferrary, J.-L., 208 , 85–86, 90–91, 98–99, Fields, D., 3, 4–5 101–104, 106–107, 117, 122, 131, ‘figured speech’, 185–188; and see 132, 137, 139, 140–141, 200, 292 Aelius Aristides Athenaeus, 12 Foerster, R., 264 Fontanella, F., 3 ‘barbarians’, 2, 93, 96 Franco, C., 3 Bakhtin, M.M., 153 Freud, S., 89 Basil of Caesarea, 280, 293 Fronto, 237 bathing, 121–122: and see Aelius Aristides, alousia , 86, 106, 120, 121, 253 Boulanger, A., 293 Gangloff,A.,51 Bowersock, G.W., 2, 3, 183 Gellius, A., 229–230 Bowie, E.L., 2 Gkourogiannis, T.K., 9 Byzantine Renaissance, 284–285 Gotteland, S., 51 Gregory Nazianzenus, 293 Celsus, 122 Gregory of Nyssa, 100 Christian rampages, 70 Cicero, 208, 209–210, 212, 215, 247 of Tyre, 72 Claudius Aristocles, 258–260, 262 Helen, 81–82, 91, 92, 94