The second sophistic

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In this short, accessible account Tim Whitmarsh 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. [from publisher's advertisement].

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Title Statements

Full title :The second sophistic / by Tim Whitmarsh.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press, published for the Classical Association
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

Description:106 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0198568819, 9780198568810
oclc:ocm59137793
LC Classification:B288
Dewey Decimal:183/.1

Introduction -- The Second Sophistic -- Sophistic performance -- The politics of language and style -- Reading sophistic texts -- The Second Sophistic and Imperial Greek literature -- Bibliography : abbreviations and works cited -- About the author -- Index.

Subjects

18.43 ancient Greek literature 31 f. Kr.-476 e. Kr. (kejsartiden, Rome… Grieks Philosophy, Ancient Retorica Retorik -- antiken Rhetoric, Ancient -- Greek authors Rhetoric, Ancient -- Latin authors Rom -- historia Rom -- kultur- och samhällsliv Rome -- Civilization Sofisterna Sofistiek Sophistes grecs Sophists (Greek philosophy) Zweite Sophistik