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grbs-4941	de Blois, Lukas	The Εἰς Βασιλέα of Ps.-Aelius Aristides	1986	10	.pdf	application/pdf	4779	178	59	[Greek] of Ps.-Aelius Aristides , Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 27:3 (1986:Autumn) p.279 LUKAS DE BLOIS 287 tion of the monarch's cfJ/AOf an important topic with Dio.25 The absence of Alexander the Great is particularly surprising in a speech that deals at length with problems on the Eastern frontier; possibly the author wished to avoid the comparisons with Alexander found in eulogies of Caracalla and Alexander Severus, who had met with little success in that region.26 There are also major discrepancies with Aelius Aristides' panegyric on Rome, which, as Oliver and Klein have shown,27 must have been delivered in A.D. 143. Such instructions are in fact known to us from Philostratus' Vitae sophistarum, where Heliodo­ rus is instructed by Caracalla to speak extemporaneously on the topic, Having collapsed before Philip, Demosthenes defends himself against a charge of cowardice (VS 626); Aelius Aristides composed five #LE'AE­ 'Tat concerning the situation in Greece after the battle of Leuctra (371 B.C.), in two of which Athens is invited to support Sparta.10 But since the El~ BaULAEa was probably inserted into the corpus of Aristides be­ fore Libanius' time,ll it must have been regarded as something more than a school exercise based on detailed instructions.	cache/grbs-4941.pdf	txt/grbs-4941.txt