UID:
almahu_9949225924102882
Format:
1 online resource (500 pages)
Edition:
Reprint 2012
ISBN:
1-283-39682-3
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9786613396822
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3-11-916495-X
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3-11-020471-1
Series Statement:
Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. = Millenium studies in the culture and history of the first millenium C.E., v. 2
Content:
In the World of the Second Sophistic, education, paideia, was a crucial factor in the discourse of power. Knowledge in the fields of medicine, history, philosophy, and poetry joined with rhetorical brilliance and a presentable manner became the outward appearance of the elite of the Eastern Roman Empire. This outward appearance guaranteed a high social status as well as political and economical power for the individual and major advantages for their hometowns in interpolis competition. Since paideia was related particularly to Classical Greek antiquity, it was, at the same time, fundamental to the new self-confidence of the Greek East. This book presents, for the first time, studies from a broad range of disciplines on various fields of life and on different media, in which this ideology became manifest. These contributions show that the Sophists and their texts were only the most prominent exponents of a system of thoughts and values structuring the life of the elite in general.
Note:
Most of these papers originally presented at a conference on the "World of the Second Sophistic" held at the University of Heidelberg, March 2002.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of contents --
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Introduction --
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CHAPTER ONE. Beyond Greek Identity and the Sophists --
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Multiple identities in the age of the Second Sophistic /
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Identities and empire: Local mythology and the self-representation of Aphrodisias /
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Artemidorus and the Second Sophistic /
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The geography of the Second Sophistic: Cultural variations /
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CHAPTER TWO. Modes and Media --
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Alciphron's letters as a sophistic text /
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Horror and amazement: Colossal mythological statue groups and the new rhetoric of images in late second and early third century Rome /
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,Klassiker' im Gymnasion. Bildnisse attischer Kosmeten der mittleren und späten Kaiserzeit zwischen Rom und griechischer Vergangenheit /
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Glamorous intellectuals: Portraits of pepaideumenoi in the second and third centuries AD /
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Städtische Münzprägung und zweite Sophistik /
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CHAPTER THREE. Paideia and the Human Body --
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Athletics and paideia: Festivals and physical education in the world of the Second Sophistic /
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Men, muscle, and myth: Attic sarcophagi in the cultural context of the Second Sophistic /
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Aelius Aristides: A suitable case for treatment /
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CHAPTER FOUR. Public Places of Paideia --
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Aspekte öffentlicher Bibliotheken in der Kaiserzeit /
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'Creating religious identities': Paideia e religione nella Seconda Sofistica /
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CHAPTER FIVE. Paideia and Patronage --
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Sophists and emperors: A reconnaissance of sophistic attitudes /
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The Cretan lyre paradox: Mesomedes, Hadrian and the poetics of patronage /
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Sophisten und Archonten: Paideia als gesellschaftliches Argument bei Libanios /
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Bibliography --
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General index --
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Index of names --
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Index of ancient texts --
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List of figures
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-018231-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110204711
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