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| Title: Apion 's "Encomium of Adultery". A Jewish Satire of Greek Paideia in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies Secondary Title: HUCA Volume: 64 Pages: 15-49 Type: Journal Article Year: 1993 Abstract: Harrington, Daniel J.: "Ps.-Clementine Homilies 4-6 includes a caricature of Greek rhetoric in the form of an ""encomium of adultery"" that Apion, an Alexandrian grammarian notorious for his assaults on Judaism, is said to have written on Clement 's behalf when the latter was a boy growing up in Rome. The success of the satire depends on the readers' familiarity with a popular Hellenistic Syrian romance about the young prince Antiochus' infatuation with his father 's wife. The point is that the paidei/a of the Greeks gives a noble pretext for sinning without fear. In its original context Apion 's encomium was part of a longer Jewish missionary tract composed in Alexandria in the 2nd century A.D." Keywords: Contra Apionem |