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The Second Sophistic

The Second Sophistic

Whitmarsh, Tim

Paperback

Series: New Surveys in the Classics, Book 35

PhilosophyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0198568819
ISBN13: 9780198568810
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 1 2005
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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.

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