The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Richter, Daniel S.; Johnson, William A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 744
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190855192
• Artikelnr.: 49530238

Autorenporträt

Daniel S. Richter is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Southern California and the author of Cosmopolis (OUP, 2011). William A. Johnson is Professor in Classical Studies, Duke University and the author of Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto, 2004), Ancient Literacies (co-editor, OUP, 2009), and Readers and Reading Culture in the High Empire (OUP, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

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