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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"SECOND SOPHISTIC"”.
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Lucian and the Atticists: A Barbarian at the Gates
… constructed by Greek and Latin writers of the second and third centuries CE, a loosely-connected movement now generally referred to the Second Sophistic. It focuses on Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian “barbarian” writer of satire and parody in Greek, and especially on his works that engage with …
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A commentary on book 6 of Achilles Tatius Leucippe and Clitophon
… renaissance under the Roman Empire known as the Second Sophistic. For all appearances, the story follows the usual narrative course of the ancient Greek erotic adventure novels: boy meets girl, love occurs at first sight, and Fate attempts to keep them apart, triggering an odyssey of bizarre …
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In search of Xerxes: images of the Persian king
… the figure of Xerxes in Greek writing of the second sophistic period is considered.
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The Origins and Development of Linguistic Atticism
… considered a typical product of the second century CE, already informed Greek linguistic approaches from the fifth century BCE. This changes our approach both to Hellenistic and Imperial sources, which played a much more important role in the consideration of Attic as the correct …
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Lucian's Mythological Playground: Time, Space, and Myth in Lucian of Samosata
… Samosata, the Greco-Syrian prose satirist of the second century CE, manipulates the representation of space and time in his mythological texts. Lucian regularly employs characters, spaces, and tropes from myth as a central part of his broader comic engagement with earlier Greek cultural traditions …
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A Study of Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis as Early Imperial Greek Texts and Late Antique Latin Translations
… the Greek originals within the context of Second Sophistic Homeric revisionism, focusing on Dio Chrysostom’s Trojan Oration and Philostratus’ Heroicus. It argues that many of Dares’ narrative elements were influenced by Dio’s rationalistic critique of Homer’s account, and that Philostratus …
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The rhetorics of Lucian's Dream
The autobiographical piece The Dream provides an interesting insight into the satirist Lucian’s early life and professional development. In the work, young Lucian has a dream in which he must decide between following a career of education (paideia) or of craftwork (technê). Each career appears to …
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Constructing the Coast in Imperial Greek Periplography
This thesis undertakes the first serious study of the extant corpus of imperial Greek periplographic literature. It focusses, in particular, on the way that these texts construct coastal space, arguing that they are bound together by a shared recognition of the shore as a symbol of the territorial …
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ΣΤΟΑ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΩΙΚΟΙ ΣΤΗ ΣΑΤΙΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΛΟΥΚΙΑΝΟΥ
ΣΤΟΧΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΑΣ ΑΥΤΗΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΝΑ ΦΑΝΟΥΝ ΟΙ ΣΤΩΙΚΟΙ ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΙΔΕΕΣ ΤΟΥΣ ΜΕΣΑ ΣΤΗ ΔΙΑΔΙΚΑΣΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΣΑΤΙΡΙΚΟΥ ΛΟΓΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΛΟΥΚΙΑΝΟΥ. ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΣΚΟΠΟ ΑΥΤΟ ΕΠΙΛΕΓΗΣΑΝ ΤΑ ΕΞΙ ΕΡΓΑ: ΒΙΩΝ ΠΡΑΣΙΣ, ΕΡΜΟΤΙΜΟΣ 'Η ΠΕΡΙ ΑΙΡΕΣΕΩΝ, ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΟΝ 'Η ΠΑΠΙΘΑΙ, ΦΙΛΟΨΕΥΔΕΙΣ 'Η ΑΠΙΣΤΩΝ, ΔΙΣ ΚΑΤΗΓΟΡΟΥΜΕΝΟΣ, ΖΕΥΣ ΤΡΑΓΩΔΟΣ, ΟΠΟΥ …
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Dio Chrysostom: a Philosopher in Civic Space
This thesis argues that Dio Chrysostom’s self-identification as a philosopher mattered a great deal more than what previous scholarship had suggested. Against the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of the first two centuries CE, it is argued that Dio had deliberately chosen to identify as a …
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Into the snake pit: Heliodorus's Aethiopica and cognitive pluralism
This PhD thesis explores the conflicting narratological momenta at play in Heliodorus’s Aethiopica (approx. fourth century C.E.) and their relationship to the novel’s irreconcilable ideological impulses. The conception of this novel as a whole is still dominated by the readings of Jack Winkler and …
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Commanding Texts: Knowledge-ordering, Identity Construction and Ethics in 'Military Manuals’ of the Roman Empire
… and finally the issue of their practicality. The second chapter will examine how authors tackle the issue of ‘Greek’ and ‘Roman’ knowledge, categorize, rank and use it for self-promotion. We will see how Roman knowledge is both subverted but also praised, and how Greek knowledge is at the same …
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Homer in the Perfect Tense: The Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus and the Poetics of Impersonation
The thesis has been written as part of the AHRC collaborative research project Greek Epic of the Roman Empire: A Cultural History. This project seeks to give the first cultural-historical analysis of the large, underexploited corpus of Greek epic poetry composed in the transformative period between …
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Ο Παντόμιμος στην Αυτοκρατορική περίοδο : μια "λογοτεχνική συζήτηση" ανάμεσα στον Αίλιο Αριστείδη, τον Λουκιανό και τον Λιβάνιο
Στην παρούσα εργασία συζητείται κατά κύριο λόγο η ‘λογοτεχνική σχέση’ τριών συγγραφέων, του Αίλιου Αριστείδη, του Λουκιανού και του Λιβάνιου, οι οποίοι χαρακτηρίζονται πολλές φορές από κοινού ‘σοφιστές’ και ήταν ιδιαίτερα δημοφιλείς κατά την Αυτοκρατορική εποχή. Η σχέση αυτή εξετάζεται με γνώμονα …