Aelius Aristides’ 18th, 19th and 20th Orations Which Saved the Smyrna From Earthquake in 177 A.D.

Year 2015, Volume: 34 Issue: 58, 489 - 506, 01.10.2015

Ayşe Yakut

https://doi.org/10.1501/Tarar_0000000615

Cited By: 1

Abstract

In Smyrna, the most brilliant city of Asia Minor, an earthquake happened in 177 AD and the city was destroyed after the earthquake. Aelius Aristides, the most prominent orator of this era, using his oratorical talent, persuaded the imperor Marcus Aurelius to help the city and by this way, he enabled the reconstruction of the city In this work, orations (no: 18, 19, 20) by which the orator achieved this success, will be translated and evaluated. These orations of Aristeides are important since they are the only documents which described the Smyrnean earthquake at an era when it was occured

Keywords

Smyrna, Aelius Aristides, Marcus Aurelius, Earthquake, Roman Empire

Smyrna’yı M.S. 177 yılı depreminden kurtaran Aelius Aristeides’in 18. 19. ve 20. söylevleri

Abstract

M.S. 177 yılında, Küçükasya eyaletinin en gözde kentlerinden biri olan Smyrna’da büyük bir deprem yaşanmış ve kent bu depremle harap olmuştur. Dönemin önde gelen hatiplerinden Aelius Aristeides, hitabet yeteneğini kullanarak imparator Marcus Aurelius’u kente yardım konusunda ikna etmiş ve kentin yeniden inşasını sağlamıştır. Bu çalışmada hatibin imparatoru etkileyen söylevleri (or.18, 19, 20) özgün dili Yunancadan çevrilecek ve değerlendirilecektir. Aristeides’in bu söylevleri, Smyrna depremini yaşandığı çağda konu alan tek belge olması bakımından önemlidir

Keywords

Smyrna, Aelius Aristeides, Marcus Aurelius, Deprem, Roma İmparatorluğu

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