%0 Journal Article
%A Tagliabue, Aldo
%D 2016
%F heidok:23518
%I Aureal Publications
%J Ramus
%N 2
%P 213-230
%T An embodied reading of epiphanies in Aelius Aristides' Sacred Tales
%U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/23518/
%V 45
%X This article focuses on the Sacred Tales (henceforth ST), Aelius Aristides’  first-person account of his terrible diseases and subsequent healing brought  about by Asclepius, and sheds new light on this text with the help of the  notion of embodiment. In recent decades the ST has received a great deal of attention:   scholars have offered two main readings of this work, oscillating between  the poles of religion and rhetoric. Some have read the ST as an aretalogy while  others have emphasised the rhetorical aims of this text and its connection with  Second Sophistic literature.