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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Thomas Schmidt (Universite de Fribourg) and Pascale Fleury (Universite Laval) PART I : Essence et presence de la Seconde Sophistique * Narrative of Cultural Geography in Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists by Adam Kemezis (University of Alberta) * The Second Sophistic and Non-Elite Speakers by Ian Henderson (McGill University) * L'Heracles d'Herode: heroisme et philosophie dans la sophistique de Philostrate by Dominque Cote (University of Ottawa) PART II: L'orateur et son image * L'orateur oracle: une image sophistique by Pascale Fleury * Portrait d'un rheteur: Aelius Aristide comme inite mystique et athlete dans les Discours sacres by Janet Downie (Princeton University) * Une ecriture du visuel au temps de la Seconde Sophistique: Clement d'Alexandrie (Protreptique) et Philostrate (Images) by Anne Pasquier (Universite Laval) PART III: Passe et identite grecque * Sophistes, barbares et identite grecques: le cas de dion Chrysostome by Thomas Schmidt * Reflets de l'hellenisme chez Athenee a travers l'emploi des termes [...] by Marie-Helene Mainguy (Universite Laval) * Pausanias le Periegete et la Seconde Sophistique by Janick Auberger (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) PART IV: Texte, tradition et performance * Dance and Discourse in Plutarch's Table Talks 9.15 by Karin Schlapbach (University of Ottawa) * Galen on [...] by Sean Alexander Gurd (Concordia University) PART V: Heritage et influence de la Seconde Sophistique * Were the Speeches of Aelius Aristides "rediscovered" in the 350s p.C.? by John Vanderspoel (University of Calgary) * Libanius' Monody for Daphne (Or. 60) and the Eleusinios Logos of Aelius Aristides by Diane Johnson (University of Western Washington) * Themistios et la Seconde Sophistique: le theme du tyran by Christian R. Raschle (Universite de Montreal)
