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Beyond the Second Sophistic Adventures in Greek Postclassicism

Whitmarsh Tim
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780520344587
Publisert
2020-05-05
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
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454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
P, U, 06, 05
Språk
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Engelsk
Format
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Heftet

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Whitmarsh Tim

Biographical note

Tim Whitmarsh is Professor of Ancient Literatures, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.

Beyond the Second Sophistic Adventures in Greek Postclassicism

Whitmarsh Tim
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
Whitmarsh Tim
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
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"Highly recommended."

CHOICE

"Beyond the Second Sophistic is a quietly passionate and intellectually complex book...The world of late ancient Greek literature is a profoundly exciting and deceptive one, and there is no better guide to it working today than Tim Whitmarsh."

- Edith Hall, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"This collection of essays is a treasure-house of insights, shaped within a sometimes polemical template which will surely shift the discourse and the future of scholarship on imperial Greek literature."

- Calum A. Maciver, Phoenix

Se alle

"Scholarly yet lucid. . . .This collection will be a treat to anyone seriously interested in the cultural and literary history of the ancient world and its reception."

The European Legacy

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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Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction: Beyond the Second Sophistic and into the Postclassical

PART ONE. FICTION BEYOND THE CANON
1. The “Invention of Fiction”
2. The Romance of Genre
3. Belief in Fiction: Euhemerus of Messene and the Sacred Inscription
4. An I for an I: Reading Fictional Autobiography
5. Metamorphoses of the Ass
6. Addressing Power: Fictional Letters between Alexander and Darius
7. Philostratus’s Heroicus: Fictions of Hellenism
8. Mimesis and the Gendered Icon in Greek Theory and Fiction

PART TWO. POETRY AND PROSE
9. Greek Poets and Roman Patrons in the Late Republic and Early Empire
10. The Cretan Lyre Paradox: Mesomedes, Hadrian, and the Poetics of Patronage
11. Lucianic Paratragedy
12. Quickening the Classics: The Politics of Prose in Roman Greece

PART THREE. BEYOND THE GREEK SOPHISTIC
13. Politics and Identity in Ezekiel’s Exagoge
14. Adventures of the Solymoi

References
Index
Les mer
"As the premier authority of Greek literature under Rome, Tim Whitmarsh redefines the literary history of the period and extends a challenge to anyone who would care or dare to follow in his adventurous wake."
—James I. Porter, University of California, Irvine, author of The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece

"Whitmarsh's forays into the fringes of the canon demonstrate the richness and variety of post-classical culture, as well as the great amount of interest inherent in texts that lie 'beyond the Second Sophistic.' Essential reading."
--Lawrence Kim, Trinity University, author of Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature
Les mer

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"Highly recommended."

CHOICE

"Beyond the Second Sophistic is a quietly passionate and intellectually complex book...The world of late ancient Greek literature is a profoundly exciting and deceptive one, and there is no better guide to it working today than Tim Whitmarsh."

- Edith Hall, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"This collection of essays is a treasure-house of insights, shaped within a sometimes polemical template which will surely shift the discourse and the future of scholarship on imperial Greek literature."

- Calum A. Maciver, Phoenix

Se alle

"Scholarly yet lucid. . . .This collection will be a treat to anyone seriously interested in the cultural and literary history of the ancient world and its reception."

The European Legacy

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.
Les mer
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction: Beyond the Second Sophistic and into the Postclassical

PART ONE. FICTION BEYOND THE CANON
1. The “Invention of Fiction”
2. The Romance of Genre
3. Belief in Fiction: Euhemerus of Messene and the Sacred Inscription
4. An I for an I: Reading Fictional Autobiography
5. Metamorphoses of the Ass
6. Addressing Power: Fictional Letters between Alexander and Darius
7. Philostratus’s Heroicus: Fictions of Hellenism
8. Mimesis and the Gendered Icon in Greek Theory and Fiction

PART TWO. POETRY AND PROSE
9. Greek Poets and Roman Patrons in the Late Republic and Early Empire
10. The Cretan Lyre Paradox: Mesomedes, Hadrian, and the Poetics of Patronage
11. Lucianic Paratragedy
12. Quickening the Classics: The Politics of Prose in Roman Greece

PART THREE. BEYOND THE GREEK SOPHISTIC
13. Politics and Identity in Ezekiel’s Exagoge
14. Adventures of the Solymoi

References
Index
Les mer
"As the premier authority of Greek literature under Rome, Tim Whitmarsh redefines the literary history of the period and extends a challenge to anyone who would care or dare to follow in his adventurous wake."
—James I. Porter, University of California, Irvine, author of The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece

"Whitmarsh's forays into the fringes of the canon demonstrate the richness and variety of post-classical culture, as well as the great amount of interest inherent in texts that lie 'beyond the Second Sophistic.' Essential reading."
--Lawrence Kim, Trinity University, author of Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780520344587
Publisert
2020-05-05
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
P, U, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Whitmarsh Tim

Biographical note

Tim Whitmarsh is Professor of Ancient Literatures, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.

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