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List of illustrations viii
List of contributors xvii
Letter of Philostratus to Longinus Donald Russell xix
Preface and Bibliography of Ewen Bowie Stephen Harrison Simon Swain xxi
Introduction Simon Swain 1
Literature and Culture
Prose literature and the Severan dynasty Tim Whitmarsh 29
Severan historiography: evidence, patterns, and arguments Harry Sidebottom 52
The worlds of Nestor the poet John Ma 83
Sex lives of the sophists: epigrams by Philostratus and Fronto Gideon Nisbet 114
The Cynegetica attributed to Oppian Mary Whitby 125
Greek athletics in the Severan period: literary views Jason Konig 135
Heracles, Prometheus, and the play of genres in [Lucian]'s Amores Judith Mossman 146
Allegory and narrative in Heliodorus Glenn Most 160
Polyphony or Babel? Hosidius Geta's Medea and the poetics of the cento Philip Hardie 168
Unfair to Caecilius? Ciceronian dialogue techniques in Minucius Felix Jonathan Powell 177
Cyprian's Ad Donatum Michael Winterbottom 190
Art and Architecture
Art at the crossroads? Themes and styles in Severan art Zahra Newby 201
Landscape, transformation, and divine epiphany Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis 250
Urban development in the Severan empire Andrew Wilson 290
Metaphor and identity in Severan architecture: the Septizodium at Rome between 'reality' and 'fantasy' Edmund Thomas 327
Visibility and viewing on the Severan Marble Plan Jennifer Trimble 368
Septimius Severus: the Augustan emperor Alison Cooley 385
Religion and Philosophy
Severan Christianity Mark Edwards 401
Almsgiving for the pure of heart: continuity and change in early Christian teaching Richard Finn 419
Tertullian on flesh, spirit, and wives Catherine Conybeare 430
Sophists and Rabbis: Jews and their past in the Severan age Joseph Geiger 440
Trouble in Snake-Town: interpreting an oracle from Hierapolis-Pamukkale Ian Rutherford 449
Magic in the Severan period Daniel Ogden 458
Philosophy, scholarship, and the world of learning in the Severan period Michael Trapp 470
Human autonomy and divine revelation in Origen George Boys-Stones 489
Socrates under the Severans Christopher Taylor 500
Bibliography 512
Index 561
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reviewed Severan Culture on August 20, 2011
Severan Culture
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