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The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic

Edited by William A. Johnson and Daniel S. Richter

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Offers a diversity of scholarly voices seeking to define a rapidly developing field of study
Chapters offer textual materials core to areas of current interest, including: gender studies and cultural history of the body

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The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic

Edited by William A. Johnson and Daniel S. Richter

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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 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, as much as is possible in a single volume, the state of this rapidly developing field. Included are chapters that offer practical guidance on the wide range of valuable textual materials that survive, many of which are useful or even core to inquiries of particular current areas of interest, including: gender studies, cultural history of the body, sociology of literary culture, history of education and intellectualism, history of religion, political theory, history of medicine, cultural linguistics, and, intersection of the Classical traditions and early Christianity. The Handbook also contains essays devoted to the work of the most significant intellectuals of the period such as Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom, Lucian, Apuleius, the novelists, the Philostrati and Aelius Aristides. In addition to content and bibliographical guidance, however, this volume is designed to help to situate the textual remains within the period and its society, to describe and circumscribe not simply the literary matter but the literary culture and societal context. For that reason, the Handbook devotes considerable space at the front to various contextual essays, and throughout tries to keep the contextual demands in mind. In its scope and in its pluralism of voices this Handbook thus represents a new approach to the Second Sophistic, one that attempts to integrate Greek literature of the Roman period into the wider world of early imperial Greek, Latin, Jewish, and Christian cultural production, and one that keeps a sharp focus situating these texts within their socio-cultural context.

The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic

Edited by William A. Johnson and Daniel S. Richter

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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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The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic

Edited by William A. Johnson and Daniel S. Richter

Oxford Handbooks

Offers a diversity of scholarly voices seeking to define a rapidly developing field of study
Chapters offer textual materials core to areas of current interest, including: gender studies and cultural history of the body

£32.99

Paperback

Published: 05 October 2021

776 Pages

ISBN: 9780197602218