| List of illustrations [ pagevii] | |||
| List of contributors [ xvii] | |||
| Letter of Philostratus to Longinus [ xix] | |||
| DONALD RUSSELL | |||
| Preface and Bibliography of Ewen Bowie [ xxi] | |||
| STEPHEN HARRISON AND SIMON SWAIN | |||
| Introduction [ 1 ] | |||
| SIMON SWAIN | |||
| 1 | PART I ITERATURE AND CULTURE | ||
| Prose literature and the Severan dynasty [ 29 ] | |||
| TIM WHITMARSH | |||
| 2 | Severan historiography: evidence, patterns, and arguments [ 52 ] | ||
| HARRY SIDEBOTTOM | |||
| 3 | The worlds of Nestor the poet [ 83 ] | ||
| JOHN MA | |||
| 4 | Sex lives of the sophists: epigrams by Philostratus and Fronto [ 114 ] | ||
| GIDEON NISBET | |||
| 5 | The Cynegetica attributed to Oppian [ 125 ] | ||
| MARY WHITBY | |||
| 6 | Greek athletics in the Severan period: literary views [ 135 ] | ||
| JASON KöNIG | |||
| 7 | Heracles, Prometheus, and the play of genres in [Lucian]’s Amores [ 146 ] | ||
| JUDITH MOSSMAN | |||
| 8 | Allegory and narrative in Heliodorus [ 160 ] | ||
| GLENN MOST | |||
| 9 | Polyphony or Babel? Hosidius Geta’s Medea and the poetics of the cento [ 168 ] | ||
| PHILIP HARDIE | |||
| 10 | Unfair to Caecilius? Ciceronian dialogue techniques in Minucius Felix [ 177 ] | ||
| JONATHAN POWELL | |||
| 11 | Cyprian’s Ad Donatum [ 190 ] | ||
| MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM | |||
| PART II ART AND ARCHITECTURE | |||
| 12 | Art at the crossroads? Themes and styles in Severan art [ 201 ] | ||
| ZAHRA NEWBY | |||
| 13 | Landscape, transformation, and divine epiphany [ 250 ] | ||
| ALEXIA PETSALIS-DIOMIDIS | |||
| 14 | Urban development in the Severan empire [ 290 ] | ||
| ANDREW WILSON | |||
| 15 | Metaphor and identity in Severan architecture: the Septizodium at Rome between ‘reality’ and ‘fantasy’ [ 327 ] | ||
| EDMUND THOMAS | |||
| 16 | Visibility and viewing on the Severan Marble Plan [ 368 ] | ||
| JENNIFER TRIMBLE | |||
| 17 | Septimius Severus: the Augustan emperor [ 385 ] | ||
| ALISON COOLEY | |||
| PART III RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY | |||
| 18 | Severan Christianity [ 401 ] | ||
| MARK EDWARDS | |||
| 19 | Almsgiving for the pure of heart: continuity and change in early Christian teaching [ 419 ] | ||
| RICHARD F INN | |||
| 20 | Tertullian on flesh, spirit, and wives [ 430 ] | ||
| CATHERINE CONYBEARE | |||
| 21 | Sophists and Rabbis: Jews and their past in the Severan age [ 440 ] | ||
| JOSEPH GEIGER | |||
| 22 | Trouble in Snake-Town: interpreting an oracle from Hierapolis-Pamukkale [ 449 ] | ||
| IAN RUTHERFORD | |||
| 23 | Magic in the Severan period [ 458 ] | ||
| DANIEL OGDEN | |||
| 24 | Philosophy, scholarship, and the world of learning in the Severan period [ 470 ] | ||
| MICHAEL TRAPP | |||
| 25 | Human autonomy and divine revelation in Origen [ 489 ] | ||
| GEORGE BOYS-STONES | |||
| 26 | Socrates under the Severans [ 177 ] | ||
| CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR | |||
| Bibliography [ 512 ] | |||
| Index [ 561 ] |