Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and Its Times - Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son époque

From a workshop held at Université Laval, __Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times__ brings together fourteen essays and a range of perspectives, including work from scholars in literature, philology, linguistics, history, political science, sociology, and religion. Table of Contents / Table des Matières 5 Acknowledgments / Remerciements 7 Introduction 9 Section I: Essence et présence de la Seconde Sophistique 23 Narrative of Cultural Geography in Philostratus’s Lives of the Sophists 23 The Second Sophistic and Non-Elite Speakers 43 L’Héraclès d’Hérode: héroïsme et philosophie dans la sophistique de Philostrate 56 Section II: L’orateur et son image 85 L’orateur oracle: une image sophistique 85 Portrait d’un rhéteur: Aelius Aristide comme initié mystique et athlète dans les Discours sacrés 96 Une écriture du visuel au temps de la Seconde Sophistique: Clément d’Alexandrie (Protreptique) et Philostrate (Images) 107 Section III: Passé et identité grecque 125 Sophistes, barbares et identité grecque: le cas de Dion Chrysostome 125 Reflets de l’hellenisme chez Athénée a travers l’emploi des termes ‘Ελληνικóς et βάρβαρος 140 Pausanias le Périégète et la Seconde Sophistique 153 Section IV: Texte, tradition et performance 169 Dance and Discourse in Plutarch’s Table Talks 9.15 169 Galen on Є́̕κδοσις 189 Section V: Héritage et influence de la Seconde Sophistique 207 Were the Speeches of Aelius Aristides ‘Rediscovered’ in the 350s p.C.? 207 Libanius’s Monody for Daphne (Oration 60) and the Eleusinios Logos of Aelius Aristides 219 Thémistios et la Seconde Sophistique: le thème du tyran 236 Bibliography / Bibliographie 255 Index Locorum 279 Index of Proper Names / Index des noms propres 287 Subject Index / Index thématique 290 Phoenix Supplementary Volumes 295

The Second Sophistic (50 to 250 BCE) was an intellectual movement throughout the ancient Greek and Roman world. Although it can be characterized as a literary and cultural phenomenon of which rhetoric is an essential component, other themes and values such as peideia, mimesis, the glorification of the past, the importance of Athens, and Greek identity pervade the literature and art of this era.

From a workshop held at Université Laval, Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times brings together fourteen essays and a range of perspectives, including work from scholars in literature, philology, linguistics, history, political science, sociology, and religion. The essays explore the Second Sophistic and describe how the intellectual elites of this period perceived and defined themselves, how they were judged by later authors, and how we understand them today.

The Second Sophistic (50 to 250 BCE) was an intellectual movement throughout the ancient Greek and Roman world. Although it can be characterized as a literary and cultural phenomenon of which rhetoric is an essential component, other themes and values such as peideia, mimesis, the glorification of the past, the importance of Athens, and Greek identity pervade the literature and art of this era. From a workshop held at Université Laval, Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times brings together fourteen essays and a range of perspectives, including work from scholars in literature, philology, linguistics, history, political science, sociology, and religion. The essays explore the Second Sophistic and describe how the intellectual elites of this period perceived and defined themselves, how they were judged by later authors, and how we understand them today From a workshop held at Université Laval, Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times brings together fourteen essays and a range of perspectives, including work from scholars in literature, philology, linguistics, history, political science, sociology, and religion. The essays explore the Second Sophistic and describe how the intellectual elites of this period perceived and defined themselves, how they were judged by later authors, and how we understand them today."--Pub. desc