Aelius Aristides (AD 117 - 181) was a Greek orator during the Roman Empire, son of a wealthy land-owner, and considered an example of the Second Sophistic. Events Emperor Trajan dies. ... Events Antonine Wall is overrun. ... The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Caesar Augustus). ... The Second Sophistic is a literary-historical term referring to the Greek showpiece orators who flourished from the reign of Nero until c. ...

He studied under Alexander of Cotiaeon, the tutor of Marcus Aurelius. A career as an orator ended at the age of 26 when he was afflicted during a visit to Rome with the first of a long series of illnesses, possibly of a psychosomatic origin. He retired to Smyrna where between bouts of illnesses he wrote and gave lectures. Based on some of his own writings, historians today consider him to be rather vainglorious and egocentric. Some even judge he had severe psychological problems, but there is no evidence to witness this. Marcus Aurelius alabaster bust. ... Orator is a Latin word for speaker (from the Latin verb oro, meaning I speak or I pray). In ancient Rome, the art of speaking in public (Ars Oratoria) was a professional competence especially cultivated by politicians and lawyers. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... For other meanings of Smyrna, see Smyrna (disambiguation). ...

Apart from his orations, he also wrote a very different account called the Sacred Tales, in which he describes mostly how Asklepios, the god of healing, cured him from various diseases inflicted on him by fate. According to the Oxford Classical Dictionary, the remainder of his surviving writings, although praised by his contemporaries, is of primary interest for the incidental light they cast on the social history of Asia Minor in the 2nd century AD. A complete English translation was published by C.A. Behr in 1986. The Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD) is a standard one-volume encyclopedia of everything relating to ancient Greece and Rome. ... Social history is an area of historical study considered by some to be a social science that attempts to view historical evidence from the point of view of developing social trends. ... Anatolia (Greek: ανατολη anatole, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey. ... (1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century - other centuries) Events Roman Empire governed by the Five Good Emperors (96–180) – Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius. ...