The Oxford handbook of the second sophistic
by Johnson, William A., Richter, Daniel S.
fromOxford Handbooks
The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative newcomer to the Anglophone field of classics, and much of what characterizes it temporally and culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. This Handbook offers a diversity of scholarly voices that attempt to define the …
The Second Sophistic refers to a revival of the teaching and practice of Greek rhetoric in the second century AD, and to the general cultural flourishing in the Greek east during Rome's high empire. Although the term may have been first coined by Flavius Philostratus in the seco…
"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 mu…