The Second SophisticCambridge University Press, 2005 - 106 pages The 'Second Sophistic' is arguably the fastest-growing area in contemporary classical scholarship. This short, accessible account explores the various ways in which modern scholarship has approached one of the most extraordinary literary phenomena of antiquity, the dazzling oratorical culture of the Early Imperial period. Successive chapters deal with historical and cultural background, sophistic performance, technical treatises (including the issue of Atticism and Asianism), the concept of identity, and the wider impact of sophistic performance on major authors of the time, including Plutarch, Lucian and the Greek novelists. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
Sophistic Performance | 23 |
The Politics of Language and Style | 41 |
Reading Sophistic Texts | 57 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
According to Philostratus Achilles Tatius Aelius Aristides Alexander ancient Anderson Apollonius of Tyana apologia Arrian Asianism Athenians Attic Atticists audience autobiography biography Bowersock 1969 Bowie century BCE chapter claims complex contemporary context controversiae debate declamations Demosthenes dialect Dio Chrysostom Dionysius discussed elite emperor encomium Epictetus epideictic example Favorinus figures fourth-century further Whitmarsh 2001 genre Gleason Goldhill Gorgias Greece Greek culture Hellenistic period Herodes Atticus Honour of Apollonius identity imperial Greek innovation intellectual Isocrates language Leucippe and Clitophon linguistic literary literature Lives Lucian Marcus Megistias modern narrative novel orator oratory paideia particularly passage phenomenon Philagrus philosopher phrase Physiognomics Plato Plutarch Polemo political practise praise Prusa Rohde Roman empire Roman Greece Rome Russell Sacred Discourses Schmitz scholars scholarship second century Second Sophistic simply sophistic performance sophistry speech story style suasoriae survive Swain term texts themes third century traditional Trajan words writes Xenophon