Aelius Aristides, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Aelius Aristides

Ancient Greek rhetorician

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-0117

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0189

Profession: writer, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus (Greek: ?????? ???ste?d??; 117–181 CE) was a Greek orator and author considered to be a prime example of the Second Sophistic, a group of celebrated and highly influential orators who flourished from the reign of Nero until c.
230 CE.
More than fifty of his orations and other works survive, dating from the reigns of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.
His early success was interrupted by a decades-long series of illnesses for which he sought relief by divine communion with the god Asclepius, effected by interpreting and obeying the dreams that came to him while sleeping in the god's sacred precinct; he later recorded this experience in a series of discourses titled Sacred Tales (Hieroi Logoi).
In his later life, Aristides resumed his career as an orator, achieving such notable success that Philostratus would declare that "Aristides was of all the sophists most deeply versed in his art."