Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic, this Handbook offers guidance on the wide range of textual materials that survive, many of which are useful or even core to inquiries of particularly current interest, while also keeping a sharp focus on how we can best situate these texts within the broader socio-cultural milieu.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- I. Introductory
- 1: William A. Johnson and Daniel S. Richter: Periodicity and Scope
- 2: Tim Whitmarsh: Greece: Hellenistic and Early Imperial Continuities
- 3: Tom Habinek: Was There a Latin Second Sophistic?
- II. Language and Identity
- 4: Lawrence Kim: Atticism and Asianism
- 5: Martin Bloomer: Latinitas
- 6: D. S. Richter: Cosmopolitanism
- 7: Emma Dench: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity
- 8: Amy Richlin: Retrosexuality: Sex in the Second Sophistic
- III. Paideia and Performance
- 9: Ruth Webb: Schools and Paideia
- 10: Jason Koenig: Athletes and Trainers
- 11: Thomas A. Schmitz: Professionals of Paideia? The Sophists as Performers
- 12: Edmund Thomas: Performance Space
- IV. Rhetoric and Rhetoricians
- 13: Laurent Pernot: Greek and Latin Rhetorical Culture
- 14: Claire Jackson: Dio Chrysostom
- 15: Leofranc Holford-Strevens: Favorinus and Herodes Atticus
- 16: Pascale Fleury: Fronto and his Circle
- 17: Estelle Oudot: Aelius Aristides
- V. Literature and Culture
- 18: Graeme Miles: Philostratus
- 19: Plutarch: Philosophy, Religion, and EthicsFred Brenk
- 20: Paolo Desideri: Plutarch's Lives
- 21: Daniel S. Richter: Lucian of Samosata
- 22: S. J. Harrison: Apuleius
- 23: William Hutton: Pausanias
- 24: Susan Mattern: Galen
- 25: J.R. Morgan: Chariton and Xenophon of Ephesus
- 26: Froma Zeitlin: Longus and Achilles Tatius
- 27: Dan Selden: The Anti-Sophistic Novel
- 28: Katerina Oikonomopoulou: Miscellanies
- 29: Stephen Trzaskoma: Mythography
- 30: Sulo Asirvatham: Historiography
- 31: Manuel Baumbach: Poets and Poetry
- 32: Owen Hodkinson: Epistolography
- VI. Philosophy and Philosophers
- 33: Gretchen Reydams-Schils: The Stoics
- 34: Epic ureanism Writ Large: Diogenes of OenoandaPamela Gordon
- 35: Richard Bett: Skepticism
- 36: Ryan C. Fowler: Platonism
- 37: Han Baltussen: The Aristotelian Tradition
- VII. Religion and Religious Literature
- 38: Marietta Horster: Cult
- 39: Ian Rutherford: Pilgrimage
- 40: Early Christianity and the Classical TraditionAaron P. Johnson
- 41: Eric Gruen: Jewish Literature
- 42: William Adler: The Creation of Christian Elite Culture in Roman Syria and the Near East
- 43: Scott Fitzgerald Johnson: Christian Apocrypha