Abbreviations -- Preface -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- Part One Aristides and the Literature of the Past -- CHAPTER ONE ARISTIDES AND EARLY GREEK LYRIC, ELEGIAC AND IAMBIC POETRY -- CHAPTER TWO AELIUS ARISTIDES AND THUCYDIDES: SOME REMARKS ABOUT THE PANATHENAIC ORATION -- CHAPTER THREE ARISTIDES' USES OF MYTHS -- CHAPTER FOUR ARISTIDES AND THE PANTOMIMES -- Part Two Aristide' Self-Presentation -- CHAPTER FIVE AELIUS ARISTIDES' ILLEGIBLE BODY -- CHAPTER SIX PROPER PLEASURES: BATHING AND ORATORY IN AELIUS ARISTIDES' HIEROS LOGOS I AND ORATION 33 -- CHAPTER SEVEN THE BODY IN THE LANDSCAPE: ARISTIDES' CORPUS IN LIGHT OF THE SACRED TALES -- CHAPTER EIGHT ARISTIDES AND PLUTARCH ON SELF-PRAISE -- Part Three Aristides and the Roman Empire of his Times -- CHAPTER NINE AELIUS ARISTIDES AND ROME -- CHAPTER TEN THE ENCOMIUM ON ROME AS A RESPONSE TO POLYBIUS' DOUBTS ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE -- CHAPTER ELEVEN AELIUS ARISTIDES AND RHODES: CONCORD AND CONSOLATION -- Part Four Reception -- CHAPTER TWELVE ARISTIDES' FIRST ADMIRER -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN VYING WITH ARISTIDES IN THE FOURTH CENTURY: LIBANIUS AND HIS FRIENDS -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN AELIUS ARISTIDES' RECEPTION AT BYZANTIUM: THE CASE OF ARETHAS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.