Beyond The Second Sophistic
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Beyond The Second Sophistic
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Author : Tim Whitmarsh
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Beyond The Second Sophistic written by Tim Whitmarsh and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with History categories.
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.
The Oxford Handbook Of The Second Sophistic
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Author : Daniel S. Richter
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-24
The Oxford Handbook Of The Second Sophistic written by Daniel S. Richter and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-24 with History categories.
Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook serves the need for a broad and accessible overview. The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative new-comer to the Anglophone field of classics and much of what characterizes it temporally and culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. The present handbook offers a diversity of scholarly voices that attempt to define, as much as is possible in a single volume, the state of this rapidly 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). The Handbook also contains essays devoted to the work of the most significant intellectuals of the period such as Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom, Lucian, Apuleius, the novelists, the Philostrati and Aelius Aristides. In addition to content and bibliographical guidance, however, this volume is designed to help to situate the textual remains within the period and its society, to describe and circumscribe not simply the literary matter but the literary culture and societal context. For that reason, the Handbook devotes considerable space at the front to various contextual essays, and throughout tries to keep the contextual demands in mind. In its scope and in its pluralism of voices this Handbook thus represents a new approach to the Second Sophistic, one that attempts to integrate Greek literature of the Roman period into the wider world of early imperial Greek, Latin, Jewish, and Christian cultural production, and one that keeps a sharp focus on situating these texts within their socio-cultural context.
Perceptions Of The Second Sophistic And Its Times Regards Sur La Seconde Sophistique Et Son Poque
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Author : Thomas Schmidt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-04-30
Perceptions Of The Second Sophistic And Its Times Regards Sur La Seconde Sophistique Et Son Poque written by Thomas Schmidt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-30 with History categories.
The Second Sophistic (50 to 250 BCE) was an intellectual movement throughout the ancient Greek and Roman world. Although it can be characterized as a literary and cultural phenomenon of which rhetoric is an essential component, other themes and values such as peideia, mimesis, the glorification of the past, the importance of Athens, and Greek identity pervade the literature and art of this era. From a workshop held at Université Laval, Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times brings together fourteen essays and a range of perspectives, including work from scholars in literature, philology, linguistics, history, political science, sociology, and religion. The essays explore the Second Sophistic and describe how the intellectual elites of this period perceived and defined themselves, how they were judged by later authors, and how we understand them today.
The Second Sophistic
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Author : Graham Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1993-09-16
The Second Sophistic written by Graham Anderson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-09-16 with History categories.
Sophism was the single most important movement in second century literature: prose of that period came to be written as entertainment rather than confined to historical subjects. Graham Anderson shows how the Greek sophists' skills in public speaking enabled them to perform effectively across a variety of activities. As he presents the sophists' roles as civic celebrities side-by-side with their roles as transmitters of Hellenic culture and literary artists, a co-ordinated view of the Second Sophistic as a complex phenomenon emerges.
Perceptions Of The Second Sophistic And Its Times Regards Sur La Seconde Sophistique Et Son Poque
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Author : Thomas Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
Release Date : 2020-02-06
Perceptions Of The Second Sophistic And Its Times Regards Sur La Seconde Sophistique Et Son Poque written by Thomas Schmidt and has been published by Phoenix Supplementary Volumes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-06 with History categories.
From a workshop held at Université Laval, Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times brings together fourteen essays and a range of perspectives, including work from scholars in literature, philology, linguistics, history, political science, sociology, and religion.
The Second Sophistic
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Author : Tim Whitmarsh
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-09
The Second Sophistic written by Tim Whitmarsh and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09 with History categories.
Explores the various ways in which modern scholarship has approached the oratorical culture of the Early Imperial period.
The Oxford Handbook Of The Second Sophistic
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Author : Daniel S. Richter
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Oxford Handbook Of The Second Sophistic written by Daniel S. Richter and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
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).
Being Greek Under Rome
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Author : Simon Goldhill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001
Being Greek Under Rome written by Simon Goldhill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
This book explores the cultural conflicts of the second-century CE Roman Empire, through the perspective of Greek writings. The specially commissioned essays investigate the intellectual and social tensions in the era which gave rise to Christianity.
The Social World Of Intellectuals In The Roman Empire
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Author : Kendra Eshleman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-08
The Social World Of Intellectuals In The Roman Empire written by Kendra Eshleman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-08 with History categories.
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.
Greek Declamation
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Author : D. A. Russell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-12-22
Greek Declamation written by D. A. Russell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-12-22 with History categories.
This book sets the practice of declamation in its historical context and discusses the declaimers' public performances and use of classical literature and history.