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The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic William A. Johnson, Jr. (Professor in Classical Studies, Professor in Classical Studies, Duke University)

The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic By William A. Johnson, Jr. (Professor in Classical Studies, Professor in Classical Studies, Duke University)

The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic by William A. Johnson, Jr. (Professor in Classical Studies, Professor in Classical Studies, Duke University)


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Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic, this Handbook offers guidance on the wide range of textual materials that survive, many of which are useful or even core to inquiries of particularly current interest, while also keeping a sharp focus on how we can best situate these texts within the broader socio-cultural milieu.

The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic Summary

The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic by William A. Johnson, Jr. (Professor in Classical Studies, Professor in Classical Studies, Duke University)

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.

About William A. Johnson, Jr. (Professor in Classical Studies, Professor in Classical Studies, Duke University)

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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The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic by William A. Johnson, Jr. (Professor in Classical Studies, Professor in Classical Studies, Duke University)
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