The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic
by Johnson, William A.; Richter, Daniel S.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2021-06-18
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
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).
Table of Contents
I. Introductory
1. Periodicity and Scope, William A. Johnson & 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
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