Philostratus's Heroikos: Religion and Cultural Identity in the Third Century C. E. - Paperback

by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken (Editor), Jennifer K. Berenson MacLean (Editor)

North American and European classicists explore the relationship between religion and the construction of cultural identity in the hero-cult dialogue Heroikos, contending that its religious interest are intimately related to Philostratus' interests in the literary act of re-creating a coherent Greek identity for the Greek elites of the Roman Empire