| The Second Sophistic Contributor(s): Whitmarsh, Tim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198568819 ISBN-13: 9780198568810 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $29.44 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2006 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 183.1 |
| LCCN: 2005296301 |
| Series: New Surveys in the Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 6.38" W x 9.2" (0.39 lbs) 120 pages |