Paideia : the world of the second sophistic / edited by Barbara E. Borg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borg, Barbara E.

Contributor:

Borg, Barbara.

Series:

Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 2.

Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. = Millenium studies in the culture and history of the first millenium C.E., 0922-0887 ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Greco-Roman--Congresses.

Civilization, Greco-Roman.

Sophists (Greek philosophy)--Congresses.

Sophists (Greek philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (500 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. Beyond Greek Identity and the Sophists

Multiple identities in the age of the Second Sophistic / JONES, CHRISTOPHER P.

Identities and empire: Local mythology and the self-representation of Aphrodisias / YILDIRIM, BAHADIR

Artemidorus and the Second Sophistic / BOWERSOCK, GLEN W.

The geography of the Second Sophistic: Cultural variations / BOWIE, EWEN

CHAPTER TWO. Modes and Media

Alciphron's letters as a sophistic text / SCHMITZ, THOMAS A.

Horror and amazement: Colossal mythological statue groups and the new rhetoric of images in late second and early third century Rome / HOFF, RALF VON DEN

,Klassiker' im Gymnasion. Bildnisse attischer Kosmeten der mittleren und späten Kaiserzeit zwischen Rom und griechischer Vergangenheit / KRUMEICH, RALF

Glamorous intellectuals: Portraits of pepaideumenoi in the second and third centuries AD / BORG, BARBARA E.

Städtische Münzprägung und zweite Sophistik / WEIß, PETER

CHAPTER THREE. Paideia and the Human Body

Athletics and paideia: Festivals and physical education in the world of the Second Sophistic / NIJF, ONNO VAN

Men, muscle, and myth: Attic sarcophagi in the cultural context of the Second Sophistic / EWALD, BJÖRN C.

Aelius Aristides: A suitable case for treatment / HORSTMANSHOFF, MANFRED

CHAPTER FOUR. Public Places of Paideia

Aspekte öffentlicher Bibliotheken in der Kaiserzeit / NEUDECKER, RICHARD

'Creating religious identities': Paideia e religione nella Seconda Sofistica / GALLI, MARCO

CHAPTER FIVE. Paideia and Patronage

Sophists and emperors: A reconnaissance of sophistic attitudes / FLINTERMAN, JAAP-JAN

The Cretan lyre paradox: Mesomedes, Hadrian and the poetics of patronage / WHITMARSH, TIM

Sophisten und Archonten: Paideia als gesellschaftliches Argument bei Libanios / DRECOLL, CARSTEN

Bibliography

General index

Index of names

Index of ancient texts

List of figures

Notes:

Most of these papers originally presented at a conference on the "World of the Second Sophistic" held at the University of Heidelberg, March 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-454) and indexes.

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ISBN:

9786613396822

9781283396820

1283396823

9783119164955

311916495X

9783110204711

3110204711

OCLC:

437239168