DOI: 10.53084/22209050_2022_25_170

S.I. Mezheritskaya
Aelius Aristides
To those who criticize him because he does not declaim. Against those who burlesque the Mysteries (of Oratory). (Translation from ancient Greek by S.I. Mezheritskaya)

Abstract: The work publishes a first Russian translation of two speeches by the ancient Greek orator and the great representative of the Second Sophistic Aelius Aristides (117–180 AD): "To those who criticize him because he does not declaim" and "Against those who burlesque the Mysteries (of Oratory)". The translation is made according to the edition: Aelius Aristides: Quae supersunt omnia. Ed. B. Keil. Vol. 2. Berlin, 1898. P. 227–236; 237–252 and provided with a historical, cultural and linguistic commentary.

Keywords: ancient Greek oratory, the Second Sophistic, Aelius Aristides, orations

To cite this article: Aelius Aristides. To those who criticize him because he does not declaim. Against those who burlesque the Mysteries (of Oratory). (Translation from ancient Greek by S.I. Mezheritskaya). Aristeas XXV (2022): 170–190.


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S.I. Mezheritskaya