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The Second Sophistic (50 to 250 BCE) was an intellectual movement throughout the ancient Greek and Roman world. Although it can be characterized as a literary and cultural phenomenon of which rhetoric is an essential component, other themes and values such as peideia, mimesis, the glorification of the past, the importance of Athens, and Greek identity pervade the literature and art of this era. From a workshop held at Universite Laval, Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times brings together fourteen essays and a range of perspectives, including work from scholars in literature, philology, linguistics, history, political science, sociology, and religion. The essays explore the Second Sophistic and describe how the intellectual elites of this period perceived and defined themselves, how they were judged by later authors, and how we understand them today."--Pub. desc.

Second Sophistic movement --- Greek literature --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Seconde sophistique --- Littérature grecque --- Rhétorique ancienne --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- History and criticism --- Second Sophistic movement. --- Littérature grecque --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Second Sophistic school --- Rhetoric --- Ancient rhetoric --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Greek literature - Rome - History and criticism --- Rome (Empire) --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic --- Rome --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Italy

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Within Lucian's works, Timon is referable to the writer's maturity and it is considered to be one of the best and most typical dialogues written by the author from Samosata. This study traces the story of the fascinating and enigmatical character of the Athenian Timon, a archetype of a misanthrop, in his literary development up to his crucial meeting with Lucian of Samosata. The work offers, for the first time, an analytical commentary on Lucian's Timon. The reader will find in the book an introduction, which is divided in four different sections: the first contains some general notes on the Second Sophistic and Lucian; the second restores the literary development of the misanthrope Timon from his origins in the Attic comedy to the II century a.D.; the third part offers an analysis of the relationship between Lucian's Timon and the literary tradition, and, afterwards, an investigation into the dialogue's fortune from the II century to the XX century; the last section gives short but exhaustive details about the literary style and the language used in the work. To facilitate the consultation, the analytical commentary is again divided into sections - each one with a short individual introduction - and follows the Greek text and the translation.

Dialogues, Greek --- Dialogues grecs --- Translations into Italian --- Traductions italiennes --- Lucian, --- Dialogues, Greek -- Translations into Italian. --- Lucian, of Samosata. Timon. --- Greek dialogues --- Loekianos, --- Loukianos, --- Lucià, --- Luciano, --- Lucianus Samosatensis --- Lucien, --- Lukian, --- Lúkiános, --- Lūkiyān al-Sumaysāṭī --- Lūqiyān al-Samīsāṭī --- Lūqyānūs al-Samīsāṭī --- Samosata, Lucian of --- Λουκιανóς, --- לוציאן --- לוציאן, --- لوقيان السميساطي --- لوقيانوس --- Greek literature --- Timon, --- Lucianus Samosatenus --- Lukian --- Lucianus --- Lucien --- Lucien de Samosate --- Lucianus van Samosata --- Lucianus Samosatensis Satiricus. --- Lucian --- Dialogues. --- Lucian. --- Second Sophistic. --- Timon.