Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and Its Times - Regards Sur La Seconde Sophistique Et Son Epoque
Published on 30. April 2011
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304 pages
978-1-4426-4216-4 (ISBN)
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The Second Sophistic (50 to 250 BCE) was an intellectual movement throughout the ancient Greek and Roman world. Although it can be characterized as a literary and cultural phenomenon of which rhetoric is an essential component, other themes and values such as peideia, mimesis, the glorification of the past, the importance of Athens, and Greek identity pervade the literature and art of this era.
From a workshop held at UniversitE 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. The essays explore the Second Sophistic and describe how the intellectual elites of this period perceived and defined themselves, how they were judged by later authors, and how we understand them today.
From a workshop held at UniversitE 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. The essays explore the Second Sophistic and describe how the intellectual elites of this period perceived and defined themselves, how they were judged by later authors, and how we understand them today.
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English
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Toronto
Canada
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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2 b&w tables
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
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576 gr
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978-1-4426-4216-4 (9781442642164)
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Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and Its Times - Regards Sur La Seconde Sophistique Et Son Epoque
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Thomas Schmidt is professeur ordinaire de philologie classique, Institut des Sciences de l'AntiquitE et du Monde byzantin, UniversitE de Fribourg (Suisse).
Pascale Fleury is professeure agrEgEe, DEpartement des littEratures, UniversitE Laval.
Pascale Fleury is professeure agrEgEe, DEpartement des littEratures, UniversitE Laval.
Content
Introduction by Thomas Schmidt (UniversitE de Fribourg) and Pascale Fleury (UniversitE Laval)
PART I : Essence et presence de la Seconde Sophistique
Narrative of Cultural Geography in Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists by Adam Kemezis (University of Alberta)
The Second Sophistic and Non-Elite Speakers by Ian Henderson (McGill University)
L'HEraclEs d'HErode: hEroIsme et philosophie dans la sophistique de Philostrate by Dominque COtE (University of Ottawa)
PART II: L'orateur et son image
L'orateur oracle: une image sophistique by Pascale Fleury
Portrait d'un rhEteur: Aelius Aristide comme initE mystique et athlete dans les Discours sacrEs by Janet Downie (Princeton University)
Une Ecriture du visuel au temps de la Seconde Sophistique: ClEment d'Alexandrie (Protreptique) et Philostrate (Images) by Anne Pasquier (UniversitE Laval)
PART III: PassE et identitE grecque
Sophistes, barbares et identitE grecques: le cas de dion Chrysostome by Thomas Schmidt
Reflets de l'hellEnisme chez AthEnEe A travers l'emploi des termes [...] by Marie-HElEne Mainguy (UniversitE Laval)
Pausanias le PEriEgEte et la Seconde Sophistique by Janick Auberger (UniversitE du QuEbec A MontrEal)
PART IV: Texte, tradition et performance
Dance and Discourse in Plutarch's Table Talks 9.15 by Karin Schlapbach (University of Ottawa)
Galen on [...] by Sean Alexander Gurd (Concordia University)
PART V: HEritage et influence de la Seconde Sophistique
Were the Speeches of Aelius Aristides "rediscovered" in the 350s p.C.? by John Vanderspoel (University of Calgary)
Libanius' Monody for Daphne (Or. 60) and the Eleusinios Logos of Aelius Aristides by Diane Johnson (University of Western Washington)
ThEmistios et la Seconde Sophistique: le thEme du tyran by Christian R. Raschle (UniversitE de MontrEal)
PART I : Essence et presence de la Seconde Sophistique
Narrative of Cultural Geography in Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists by Adam Kemezis (University of Alberta)
The Second Sophistic and Non-Elite Speakers by Ian Henderson (McGill University)
L'HEraclEs d'HErode: hEroIsme et philosophie dans la sophistique de Philostrate by Dominque COtE (University of Ottawa)
PART II: L'orateur et son image
L'orateur oracle: une image sophistique by Pascale Fleury
Portrait d'un rhEteur: Aelius Aristide comme initE mystique et athlete dans les Discours sacrEs by Janet Downie (Princeton University)
Une Ecriture du visuel au temps de la Seconde Sophistique: ClEment d'Alexandrie (Protreptique) et Philostrate (Images) by Anne Pasquier (UniversitE Laval)
PART III: PassE et identitE grecque
Sophistes, barbares et identitE grecques: le cas de dion Chrysostome by Thomas Schmidt
Reflets de l'hellEnisme chez AthEnEe A travers l'emploi des termes [...] by Marie-HElEne Mainguy (UniversitE Laval)
Pausanias le PEriEgEte et la Seconde Sophistique by Janick Auberger (UniversitE du QuEbec A MontrEal)
PART IV: Texte, tradition et performance
Dance and Discourse in Plutarch's Table Talks 9.15 by Karin Schlapbach (University of Ottawa)
Galen on [...] by Sean Alexander Gurd (Concordia University)
PART V: HEritage et influence de la Seconde Sophistique
Were the Speeches of Aelius Aristides "rediscovered" in the 350s p.C.? by John Vanderspoel (University of Calgary)
Libanius' Monody for Daphne (Or. 60) and the Eleusinios Logos of Aelius Aristides by Diane Johnson (University of Western Washington)
ThEmistios et la Seconde Sophistique: le thEme du tyran by Christian R. Raschle (UniversitE de MontrEal)