Gregory Nagy, whose work on Homer and Greek heroes undergirds our work, has been our constant mentor, critic, and fan during the preparation of this volume. We are also grateful for the ways he nurtured the climate of inquiry in which this volume took shape. Our special thanks go to Helmut Koester for his conviction about the importance of this text for Early Christian studies and for his continual encouragement. Interdisciplinary conversation has proved invaluable in understanding this text. Fascinated by the text and its vivid depiction of Greek heroes, we decided at that time that On Heroes needed to be made accessible in English translation so as to be useful to students and scholars alike. We are grateful to these colleagues for the hours spent together in congenial and dedicated work. This group included, in addition to us, Marianne Bonz, Denise Buell, Liza Burr, Cynthia Kittredge, Iain Maclean, Shelly Matthews, Barbara Rossing, James Skedros, and Christine Thomas. Our acquaintance with On Heroes began at Harvard Divinity School, when from 1991 to 1993 a group of doctoral students from the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Studies gathered weekly, under the direction of Professor Helmut Koester, to read On Heroes together in Greek. “Strength and dignity are her clothing… she opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.”Ī multitude of heroes, gods, and mortals populate On Heroes and its world likewise our work with this text over the course of several years has been assisted by many friends and scholars. Preliminaries to Philostratus’s On Heroes by Casey Dué and Gregory Nagy Translated by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Jennifer K.
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