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| Author | : Tim Whitmarsh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 116 |
| Release | : 2005-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780198568810 |
Explores the various ways in which modern scholarship has approached the oratorical culture of the Early Imperial period.
| Author | : Daniel S. Richter |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 777 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199837473 |
The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative newcomer to the Anglophone field of classics, and much of what characterizes it temporally and culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. This Handbook offers a diversity of scholarly voices that attempt to define the state of this developing field. Included are chapters that offer practical guidance on the wide range of valuable textual materials that survive, many of which are useful or even core to inquiries of particularly current interest (e.g., gender studies, cultural history of the body, sociology of literary culture, history of education and intellectualism, history of religion, political theory, history of medicine, cultural linguistics, intersection of the classical traditions and early Christianity).
| Author | : Barbara E. Borg |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 2008-08-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3110204711 |
In the World of the Second Sophistic, education, paideia, was a crucial factor in the discourse of power. Knowledge in the fields of medicine, history, philosophy, and poetry joined with rhetorical brilliance and a presentable manner became the outward appearance of the elite of the Eastern Roman Empire. This outward appearance guaranteed a high social status as well as political and economical power for the individual and major advantages for their hometowns in interpolis competition. Since paideia was related particularly to Classical Greek antiquity, it was, at the same time, fundamental to the new self-confidence of the Greek East. This book presents, for the first time, studies from a broad range of disciplines on various fields of life and on different media, in which this ideology became manifest. These contributions show that the Sophists and their texts were only the most prominent exponents of a system of thoughts and values structuring the life of the elite in general.
| Author | : Tim Whitmarsh |
| Publisher | : University of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2020-05-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520344588 |
The “Second Sophistic” traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire’s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book proposes a very different model. Covering popular fiction, poetry and Greco-Jewish material, it argues for a rich, dynamic, and diverse culture, which cannot be reduced to a simple model of continuity. Shining new light on a series of playful, imaginative texts that are left out of the traditional accounts of Greek literature, Whitmarsh models a more adventurous, exploratory approach to later Greek culture. Beyond the Second Sophistic offers not only a new way of looking at Greek literature from 300 BCE onwards, but also a challenge to the Eurocentric, aristocratic constructions placed on the Greek heritage. Accessible and lively, it will appeal to students and scholars of Greek literature and culture, Hellenistic Judaism, world literature, and cultural theory.
| Author | : Graham Anderson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2005-07-25 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1134856849 |
Presenting the sophists' role as civic celebrities side-by-side with their roles as transmitters of Hellenic culture, Anderson produces a valuable and lucid account of the Second Sophistic.
| Author | : Michael John MacDonald |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 844 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199731594 |
Featuring roughly sixty specially commissioned essays by an international cast of leading rhetoric experts from North America, Europe, and Great Britain, the Handbook will offer readers a comprehensive topical and historical survey of the theory and practice of rhetoric from ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment up to the present day.
| Author | : Gerald Sandy |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2018-07-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004330321 |
The first three chapters of this book elucidate the scholastic goals of both classical cultures during the Roman Imperial period. Apuleius' works share the stage in these chapters with representatives of the second-century Greek cultural paradigm. They define patterns of discourse and fit selected examples of analogous Apuleian strategies into the broader cultural framework. Subsequent chapters focus closely on the complete Apuleian corpus under the general headings of Apuleius in the roles of orator, philosopher and novelist. Two of Apuleius' philosophical works and his novel the Golden Ass provide an unparalleled opportunity to analyze the methods of translation and adaptation employed by the major Latin writer of the second half of the second century.
| Author | : Kendra Eshleman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2012-11-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139851837 |
This book examines the role of social networks in the formation of identity among sophists, philosophers and Christians in the early Roman Empire. Membership in each category was established and evaluated socially as well as discursively. From clashes over admission to classrooms and communion to construction of the group's history, integration into the social fabric of the community served as both an index of identity and a medium through which contests over status and authority were conducted. The juxtaposition of patterns of belonging in Second Sophistic and early Christian circles reveals a shared repertoire of technologies of self-definition, authorization and institutionalization and shows how each group manipulated and adapted those strategies to its own needs. This approach provides a more rounded view of the Second Sophistic and places the early Christian formation of 'orthodoxy' in a fresh context.
| Author | : Bruce W. Winter |
| Publisher | : CUP Archive |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 1997-08-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521591089 |
A study of Philo and Paul and the first-century sophistic movement.
| Author | : Peter Garnsey |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520285980 |
During the Principate (roughly 27 BCE to 235 CE), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory of the empire controlled? Did the demands of central government stimulate economic growth or endanger survival? What forces of cohesion operated to balance the social and economic inequalities and high mortality rates? How did the official religion react in the face of the diffusion of alien cults and the emergence of Christianity? These are some of the many questions posed here, in the new, expanded edition of Garnsey and Saller's pathbreaking account of the economy, society, and culture of the Roman Empire. This second edition includes a new introduction that explores the consequences for government and the governing classes of the replacement of the Republic by the rule of emperors. Addenda to the original chapters offer up-to-date discussions of issues and point to new evidence and approaches that have enlivened the study of Roman history in recent decades. A completely new chapter assesses how far Rome’s subjects resisted her hegemony. The bibliography has also been thoroughly updated, and a new color plate section has been added.
