Background
Aristides was born at Hadriani in northern Mysia. He was the son of Eudaemon, a priest of Zeus and a wealthy landowner.
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Traduit pour la première fois en français, le texte d'Aelius Aristide est un document sans équivalent sur les croyances religieuses, les pratiques médicales, le statut de l'inconscient dans le monde antique.Aristide est un sophiste de l'Asie gréco-romaine, illustre en son temps (le II? siècle apr. J.-C.), un de ces orateurs qui allaient de cité en cité, proposant d'habiles variations sur des thèmes connus. Mais surtout, c'est un mélancolique, un malade entièrement possédé par Asclépios, le dieu de la médecine, auquel une fois pour toutes il s'est voué.Son récit est une manière de Journal : il y raconte jour après jour les rapports privilégiés qu'il entretient, par le canal du rêve, avec Asclépios.Texte symptomatique, qui touche d'un côté à la clinique de l'hypocondrie et, de l'autre, au travail du rêve (jeux de mots, régression formelle) tel que Freud le décrira dans la Traumdeutung. Non pas un manuel d'interprétation, comme la Clef des songesd'Artémidore d'Éphèse, mais la chronique, souvent violente, émouvante, des apparitions du dieu, de ses prescriptions et de leurs effets.
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Aristides was born at Hadriani in northern Mysia. He was the son of Eudaemon, a priest of Zeus and a wealthy landowner.
His father, arranged for Aristides to have the finest education available. Aristides first studied under Alexander of Cotiaeum (later a tutor of Marcus Aurelius) at Smyrna, then traveled to various cities to learn from the foremost sophists of the day, including a stay in Athens to hear Herodes Atticus.
The capstone of his education was a trip to Egypt in 141 CE.
In the practice of his calling he travelled through Greece, Italy, Egypt and Asia, and in many places the inhabitants erected statues to him in recognition of his talents.
In 156 he was attacked by an illness which lasted thirteen years, the nature of which has caused considerable speculation.
However, it in no way interfered with his studies; in fact, they were prescribed as part of his cure.
Aristides' favourite place of residence was Smyrna.
In 178, when it was destroyed by an earthquake, he wrote an account of the disaster to Aurelius, which deeply affected the emperor and induced him to rebuild the city.
The grateful inhabitants set up a statue in honour of Aristides, and styled him the " builder " of Smyrna.
He refused all honours from them except that of priest of Asclepius, which office he held till his death, about 189.
The extant works of Aristides consist of two small rhetorical treatises and fifty-five declamations, some not really speeches at all. The treatises are on political and simple speech, in which he takes Demosthenes and Xenophon as models for illustration; some critics attribute these to a later compiler (Spengel, Rhetores Graeci). The six Sacred Discourses have attracted some attention. They give a full account of his protracted illness, including a mass of superstitious details of visions, dreams and wonderful cures, which the god Asclepius ordered him to record. These cures, from his account, offer similarities to the effects produced by hypnotism. The speeches proper are epideictic or show speeches-on certain gods, panegyrics of the emperor and individual cities (Smyrna, Rome); justificatory-the attack on Plato's Gorgias in defence of rhetoric and the four statesmen, Thucydides, Miltiades, Pericles, Cimon; symbouleutic or political, the subjects being taken from the past history of free Greece-the Sicilian expedition, peace negotiations with Sparta, the political situation after the battle of Leuctra. The Panathenaicus and Encomium of Rome were actually delivered, the former imitated from Isocrates. The Leplinea-the genuineness of which is disputed--contrast unfavourably with the speech of Demosthenes.
Aristides' works were highly esteemed by his contemporaries; they were much used for school instruction, and distinguished rhetoricians wrote commentaries upon them.
His style, formed on the best models, is generally clear and correct, though sometimes obscured by rhetorical ornamentation; his subjects being mainly fictitious, the cause possessed no living interest, and his attention was concentrated on form and diction.
He died in 181.
(Sous le nom d'Aelius Aristide, celebre rheteur du IIe sie...)
(Sous le nom d'Aelius Aristide, celebre rheteur du IIe sie...)
(Traduit pour la première fois en français, le texte d'Ael...)
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
Quotes from others about the person
Philostratus declared that “Aristides was of all the sophists most deeply versed in his art. ”