Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its times
Subtitle: Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son époque
By: edited by Thomas Schmidt and Pascale Fleury
Series: Phoenix. Supplementary volume -- 49; Phoenix -- 49.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781442642164
Subjects: Second Sophistic movement; History and criticism; Greek literature; Ancient Rhetoric
Other titles: Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son époque
Description: 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 ù Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son Tpoque brings together fifteen 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.

Thomas Schmidt is professeur ordinaire de philologie classique, Institut des Sciences de rAntiquite et du Monde byzantin, Universite de Fribourg (Suisse).

Pascale Fleury is professeure agregee, Departement des litteratures, Universite Laval. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Papers presented at a workshop held Sept. 28-30, 2007 at Université Laval in Quebec City.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-258) and indexes.

Text in English or French.