TY - BOOK ID - 5489172 TI - Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its times AU - Fleury, Pascale, AU - Schmidt, Thomas S. AU - Fleury, Pascale PY - 2011 VL - 49 SN - 9781442642164 1442642165 1442690364 9781442690363 PB - Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Second Sophistic movement KW - Greek literature KW - Rhetoric, Ancient. KW - Seconde sophistique KW - Littérature grecque KW - Rhétorique ancienne KW - History and criticism. KW - Histoire et critique KW - Rhetoric, Ancient KW - History and criticism KW - Second Sophistic movement. KW - Littérature grecque KW - Rhétorique ancienne KW - Classical languages KW - Greek language KW - Greek rhetoric KW - Latin language KW - Latin rhetoric KW - Second Sophistic school KW - Rhetoric KW - Ancient rhetoric KW - Philosophy, Ancient KW - Balkan literature KW - Byzantine literature KW - Classical literature KW - Classical philology KW - Greek philology KW - Greek literature - Rome - History and criticism KW - Rome (Empire) KW - Rim KW - Roman Empire KW - Roman Republic KW - Rome KW - Romi (Empire) KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Italy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5489172 AB - 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. ER -