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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.

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Classical antiquities --- Byzantine antiquities --- Antiquités gréco-romaines --- Antiquités byzantines --- Periodicals --- Périodiques --- Greece --- Byzantine Empire --- Grèce --- Empire byzantin --- Antiquities --- History --- Civilization --- Antiquités --- Histoire --- Civilisation --- #BIBC:tijdschradm --- Arts and Humanities --- Society and Culture --- Arts and Humanities. --- Society and Culture. --- Antiquités gréco-romaines --- Antiquités byzantines --- Périodiques --- Grèce --- Antiquités --- DOAJ-E DUKE-E EJARCHE EJART EJHISTO EJLITTE EJPHILO EJRELIG EPUB-ALPHA-G EPUB-PER-FT --- antiquity --- Byzantium --- history of Greece --- Greek culture --- Greek literature --- Hellenic studies --- Classical antiquities. --- Byzantine Empire. --- Antiquities, Classical --- Antiquities, Grecian --- Antiquities, Roman --- Archaeology, Classical --- Classical archaeology --- Roman antiquities --- Archaeological museums and collections --- Art, Ancient --- Classical philology --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Bizantia --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Byzantium --- Impero bizantino --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii͡ --- Periodicals. --- byzantium --- history of greece --- greek culture --- greek literature --- hellenic studies --- History of Greece --- Littérature antique --- Civilisation antique

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In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, the polis, or city-state, reigned supreme, but by the time of Alexander, nearly half of the mainland Greek city-states had surrendered part of their autonomy to join the larger political entities called koina. In the first book in fifty years to tackle the rise of these so-called Greek federal states, Emily Mackil charts a complex, fascinating map of how shared religious practices and long-standing economic interactions facilitated political cooperation and the emergence of a new kind of state. Mackil provides a detailed historical narrative spanning five centuries to contextualize her analyses, which focus on the three best-attested areas of mainland Greece-Boiotia, Achaia, and Aitolia. The analysis is supported by a dossier of Greek inscriptions, each text accompanied by an English translation and commentary.

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This landmark contribution to ongoing debates about perceptions of the Jews in antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek writers of the Hellenistic period toward the Jewish people. Among the leading Greek intellectuals who devoted special attention to the Jews were Theophrastus (the successor of Aristotle), Hecataeus of Abdera (the father of "scientific" ethnography), and Apollonius Molon (probably the greatest rhetorician of the Hellenistic world). Bezalel Bar-Kochva examines the references of these writers and others to the Jews in light of their literary output and personal background; their religious, social, and political views; their literary and stylistic methods; ethnographic stereotypes current at the time; and more.

Greek literature, Hellenistic --- Jews in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Juifs dans la littérature --- Littérature grecque hellénistique --- Histoire et critique --- Jews in literature --- History and criticism --- apollonius molon. --- bezalel bar kochva. --- discussion books. --- greek culture. --- greek history. --- greek intellectuals. --- greek literature. --- greek writers. --- hecataeus of abdera. --- hellenistic period. --- historical jews. --- history buffs. --- jewish culture. --- jewish people. --- jewish representation. --- jews in literature. --- literary references. --- literary style. --- literary. --- perceptions of jews. --- political views. --- religious backgrounds. --- religious history. --- rhetoric. --- scientific ethnography. --- social connections. --- stereotypes. --- theophrastus.

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This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek ethics and political philosophy, Kathy L. Gaca demonstrates on compelling new grounds that it is misguided to regard Greek ethics and political theory-with their proposed reforms of eroticism, the family, and civic order-as the foundation of Christian sexual austerity. Rather, in this thoroughly informed and wide-ranging study, Gaca shows that early Christian goals to eradicate fornication were derived from the sexual rules and poetic norms of the Septuagint, or Greek Bible, and that early Christian writers adapted these rules and norms in ways that reveal fascinating insights into the distinctive and largely non-philosophical character of Christian sexual morality. Writing with an authoritative command of both Greek philosophy and early Christian writings, Gaca investigates Plato, the Stoics, the Pythagoreans, Philo of Alexandria, the apostle Paul, and the patristic Christians Clement of Alexandria, Tatian, and Epiphanes, freshly elucidating their ideas on sexual reform with precision, depth, and originality. Early Christian writers, she demonstrates, transformed all that they borrowed from Greek ethics and political philosophy to launch innovative programs against fornication that were inimical to Greek cultural mores, popular and philosophical alike. The Septuagint's mandate to worship the Lord alone among all gods led to a Christian program to revolutionize Gentile sexual practices, only for early Christians to find this virtually impossible to carry out without going to extremes of sexual renunciation. Knowledgeable and wide-ranging, this work of intellectual history and ethics cogently demonstrates why early Christian sexual restrictions took such repressive ascetic forms, and casts sobering light on what Christian sexual morality has meant for religious pluralism in Western culture, especially among women as its bearers.

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