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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/836557423 Title: Beyond the Second Sophistic : adventures in Greek postclassicism Author: Tim Whitmarsh Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013] ISBN/ISSN: 9780520276819 0520276817 OCLC:836557423

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Beyond the Second Sophistic : adventures in Greek postclassicism

Author:	Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Edition/Format:	Print book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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 Read more...
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Subjects	Greek literature -- Rome -- History and criticism. Greek literature. Rome (Empire) View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Criticism, interpretation, etc
Material Type:	Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Tim Whitmarsh Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780520276819 0520276817
OCLC Number:	836557423
Description:	xiii, 278 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:	Beyond the Second Sophistic, into the post-classical -- Fiction beyond the canon. The "invention of fiction" -- The romance of genre -- Belief in fiction: Euhemerus and the sacred inscription -- An I for an I: reading fictional autobiography -- Metamorphoses of The ass -- Addressing power: fictional letters between Darius and Alexander -- Philostratus' heroicus: fictions of Hellenism -- Mimesis and the gendered icon in Greek theory and fiction -- Poetry and prose. Greek poets and Roman patrons in the Late Republic and Early Empire: Crinagoras, antipater and others on Rome -- The Cretan lyre paradox: Mesomedes, Hadrian and the poetics of patronage -- Lucianic paratragedy -- Quickening the classics: the politics of prose in Roman Greece -- Beyond the Greek sophistic. Politics and identity in Ezekiel's Exagoge -- Adventures of the Solymoi.
Responsibility:	Tim Whitmarsh.

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