The Second Sophistic

Author : Daniel S. Richter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199837473
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic written by Daniel S. Richter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198568810
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Sophistic written by Tim Whitmarsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the various ways in which modern scholarship has approached the oratorical culture of the Early Imperial period.

Author : Barbara E. Borg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110204711
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paideia: The World of the Second Sophistic written by Barbara E. Borg and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0520344588
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Second Sophistic written by Tim Whitmarsh and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1134856849
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Sophistic written by Graham Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Graham Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134856830
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Sophistic written by Graham Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Michael John MacDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199731594
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies written by Michael John MacDonald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Thomas Schmidt
Publisher : Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
ISBN 13 : 9781487525972
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and Its Times - Regards Sur la Seconde Sophistique Et Son Époque written by Thomas Schmidt and published by Phoenix Supplementary Volumes. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kendra Eshleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139851837
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire written by Kendra Eshleman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780521591089
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philo and Paul Among the Sophists written by Bruce W. Winter and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Philo and Paul and the first-century sophistic movement.