Author: Glen Warren BowersockPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire
Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire
Author: Glen Warren BowersockPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire
The Second Sophistic
Author: Graham AndersonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134856830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
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.
Prosopography of Greek Rhetors and Sophists of the Roman Empire
Author: Paweł JaniszewskiPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198713401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume -- the first project of its kind in the field -- collates c. 1200 biographical entries on Greek sophists and rhetors who flourished in the Roman Empire from the first to the seventh century AD. Ancient Greek sophists, the masters of speech and teachers of rhetoric, constituted one of the most important and interesting intellectual circles of the ancient world. The prosopography provides comprehensive information on sophists and their activities, using abundant and varied source material such as literary texts (including those of the rhetors themselves) and papyrological, epigraphic, and numismatic evidence. Each entry provides data (where available) on sources in which the person is attested, biographical details, career, and rhetorical activity. Prosopography of Greek Rhetors and Sophists of the Roman Empire constitutes a basis and a tool for subsequent in-depth studies on the Greek Sophistic movement, as well as a useful reference book for students and all those interested in the culture of the ancient world.
The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire
Author: Kendra EshlemanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139851837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
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.
Chain of Gold
Author: Susan C. JarrattPublisher:
ISBN: 0809337533
Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Barred from political engagement and legal advocacy, the second sophists composed and performed epideictic works for audiences across the Mediterranean world during the early centuries of the Common Era. In a wide-ranging study, author Susan C. Jarratt argues that these artfully wrought discourses, formerly considered vacuous entertainments, constitute intricate negotiations with the absolute power of the Roman Empire. Positioning culturally Greek but geographically diverse sophists as colonial subjects, Jarratt offers readings that highlight ancient debates over free speech and figured discourse, revealing the subtly coded commentary on Roman authority and governance embedded in these works. Through allusions to classical Greek literature, sophists such as Dio Chrysostom, Aelius Aristides, and Philostratus slipped oblique challenges to empire into otherwise innocuous works. Such figures protected their creators from the danger of direct confrontation but nonetheless would have been recognized by elite audiences, Roman and Greek alike, by virtue of their common education. Focusing on such moments, Jarratt presents close readings of city encomia, biography, and texts in hybrid genres from key second sophistic figures, setting each in its geographical context. Although all the authors considered are male, the analyses here bring to light reflections on gender, ethnicity, skin color, language differences, and sexuality, revealing an underrecognized diversity in the rhetorical activity of this period. While US scholars of ancient rhetoric have focused largely on the pedagogical, Jarratt brings a geopolitical lens to her study of the subject. Her inclusion of fourth-century texts--the Greek novel Ethiopian Story, by Heliodorus, and the political orations of Libanius of Antioch--extends the temporal boundary of the period. She concludes with speculations about the pressures brought to bear on sophistic political subjectivity by the rise of Christianity and with ruminations on a third sophistic in ancient and contemporary eras of empire.
The Second Sophistic
Author: Tim WhitmarshPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780198568810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
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
Author: Daniel S. RichterPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199837473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
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).
Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Sophistry in the High Roman Empire
Author: Jeroen LauwersPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004301534
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
How is it possible that modern scholars have labelled Maximus of Tyre, a second-century CE performer of philosophical orations, as a sophist or a ‘half-philosopher’, while his own self-presentation is that of a genuine philosopher? If we take Maximus’ claim to philosophical authority seriously, his case can deepen our understanding of the dynamic nature of Imperial philosophy. Through a discursive analysis of twelve Imperial intellectuals alongside Maximus’ dialexeis, the author proposes an interpretative framework to assess the purpose behind the representation of philosophy, rhetoric, and sophistry in Maximus’ oeuvre. This is thus as yet the first book-length attempt at situating the historical communication process implicit in the surviving Maximean texts in the concurrent context of the Imperial intellectual world.
Being Greek Under Rome
Author: Simon GoldhillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521663172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
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
Author: Kendra EshlemanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107026385
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Examines the role of social networks in defining the identity of sophists, philosophers and Christians in the early Roman Empire.