Beyond the Second Sophistic

Adventures in Greek Postclassicism

Tim Whitmarsh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2013
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-27681-9 (ISBN)

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The "Second Sophistic" traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire's power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book proposes a very different model. Covering popular fiction, poetry and Greco-Jewish material, it argues for a rich, dynamic and diverse culture, which cannot be reduced to a simple model of continuity. Shining new light on a series of playful, imaginative texts that are left out of the traditional accounts of Greek literature, Whitmarsh models a more adventurous, exploratory approach to later Greek culture. Beyond the Second Sophistic offers not only a new way of looking at Greek literature from 300 BCE onwards, but also a challenge to the Eurocentric, aristocratic constructions placed on the Greek heritage. Accessible and lively, it will appeal to students and scholars of Greek literature and culture, Hellenistic Judaism, world literature, and cultural theory.

Tim Whitmarsh is Professor of Ancient Literatures, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.

Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Beyond the Second Sophistic and into the Postclassical PART ONE. FICTION BEYOND THE CANON 1. The "Invention of Fiction" 2. The Romance of Genre 3. Belief in Fiction: Euhemerus of Messene and the Sacred Inscription 4. An I for an I: Reading Fictional Autobiography 5. Metamorphoses of the Ass 6. Addressing Power: Fictional Letters between Alexander and Darius 7. Philostratus's Heroicus: Fictions of Hellenism 8. Mimesis and the Gendered Icon in Greek Theory and Fiction PART TWO. POETRY AND PROSE 9. Greek Poets and Roman Patrons in the Late Republic and Early Empire 10. The Cretan Lyre Paradox: Mesomedes, Hadrian, and the Poetics of Patronage 11. Lucianic Paratragedy 12. Quickening the Classics: The Politics of Prose in Roman Greece PART THREE. BEYOND THE GREEK SOPHISTIC 13. Politics and Identity in Ezekiel's Exagoge 14. Adventures of the Solymoi References Index

Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-520-27681-7 / 0520276817
ISBN-13	978-0-520-27681-9 / 9780520276819
Zustand	Neuware