《The Second Sophistic》是Oxford University Press出版的圖書，作者是Timothy Whitmarsh
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780198568810
- 作者：Timothy Whitmarsh
- 出版社：Oxford University Press
- 出版時間：2006年4月10日
- 頁數：120
- 定價：USD 29.99
- 裝幀：Paperback
內容簡介
The 'Second Sophistic' is arguably the fastest-growing area in contemporary classical scholarship. This short, accessible account 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. Successive chapters deal with historical and cultural ba...(展開全部) The 'Second Sophistic' is arguably the fastest-growing area in contemporary classical scholarship. This short, accessible account 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. Successive chapters deal with historical and cultural background, sophistic performance, technical treatises (including the issue of Atticism and Asianism), the concept of identity, and the wider impact of sophistic performance on major authors of the time, including Plutarch, Lucian and the Greek novelists.
