| | viii | |
| | xvii | |
| Letter of Philostratus to Longinus | | xix | |
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| Preface and Bibliography of Ewen Bowie | | xxi | |
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| Introduction | | 1 | (28) |
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| PART I LITERATURE AND CULTURE |
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| Prose literature and the Severan dynasty |
| | 29 | (23) |
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| Severan historiography: evidence, patterns, and arguments |
| | 52 | (31) |
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| The worlds of Nestor the poet |
| | 83 | (31) |
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| Sex lives of the sophists: epigrams by Philostratus and Fronto |
| | 114 | (11) |
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| The Cynegetica attributed to Oppian |
| | 125 | (10) |
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| Greek athletics in the Severan period: literary views |
| | 135 | (11) |
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| Heracles, Prometheus, and the play of genres in [Lucian]'s Amores |
| | 146 | (14) |
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| Allegory and narrative in Heliodorus |
| | 160 | (8) |
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| Polyphony or Babel? Hosidius Geta's Medea and the poetics of the cento |
| | 168 | (9) |
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| Unfair to Caecilius? Ciceronian dialogue techniques in Minucius Felix |
| | 177 | (13) |
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| | 190 | (11) |
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| PART II ART AND ARCHITECTURE |
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| Art at the crossroads? Themes and styles in Severan art |
| | 201 | (49) |
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| Landscape, transformation, and divine epiphany |
| | 250 | (40) |
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| Urban development in the Severan empire |
| | 290 | (37) |
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| Metaphor and identity in Severan architecture: the Septizodium at Rome between `reality' and `fantasy' |
| | 327 | (41) |
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| Visibility and viewing on the Severan Marble Plan |
| | 368 | (17) |
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| Septimius Severus: the Augustan emperor |
| | 385 | (16) |
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| PART III RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY |
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| | 401 | (18) |
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| Almsgiving for the pure of heart: continuity and change in early Christian teaching |
| | 419 | (11) |
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| Tertullian on flesh, spirit, and wives |
| | 430 | (10) |
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| Sophists and Rabbis: Jews and their past in the Severan age |
| | 440 | (9) |
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| Trouble in Snake-Town: interpreting an oracle from Hierapolis-Pamukkale |
| | 449 | (9) |
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| Magic in the Severan period |
| | 458 | (12) |
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| Philosophy, scholarship, and the world of learning in the Severan period |
| | 470 | (19) |
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| Human autonomy and divine revelation in Origen |
| | 489 | (11) |
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| Socrates under the Severans |
| | 500 | (12) |
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| Bibliography | | 512 | (49) |
| Index | | 561 | |
