title: Aelius Aristides’ Sacred Tales: A Study of  the Creation of the “Narrative about  Asclepius”
creator: Tagliabue, Aldo
subject: 800
subject: 800 Literature and rhetoric
subject: 880
subject: 880 Hellenic literatures Classical Greek
description: Aelius Aristides’ Sacred Tales is a complex literary text, and its first book—the diary—puzzles scholars,  as it has no parallel in the entire work. This paper offers a justification for this section by arguing  for a deliberate contrast between the diary and Books 2–6 of the Sacred Tales, as a result of which the  latter section is crafted as a narrative about Asclepius. I will first identify a large series of shifts in the  ST: starting with Book 2, change concerns the protagonist, which from Aristides’ abdomen turns to  Asclepius, the narrator, dream interpretation, genre, and arrangement of the events. Secondly, I discuss  the impact of these shifts upon the readers’ response: while the diary invites the readers to relive  the everyday tension between known past and unknown future, the spatial form of Books 2–6 creates  the opposite effect, turning the readers’ attention away from the human flow of time towards Asclepius,  and leading them to perceive features of his divine time.
date: 2016-04
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
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identifier: DOI:
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-207994
identifier:   Tagliabue, Aldo  (2016) Aelius Aristides’ Sacred Tales: A Study of the Creation of the “Narrative about Asclepius”.  Classical Antiquity, 35 (1).  pp. 126-146.  ISSN 0278-6656(p); 1067-8344(e)     
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