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Beyond the Second Sophistic : adventures in Greek postclassicism

Title
Beyond the Second Sophistic : adventures in Greek postclassicism / Tim Whitmarsh.
Author
Whitmarsh, Tim
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.

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Description
xiii, 278 pages; 24 cm
Subject
Greek literature > Rome > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Beyond the Second Sophistic, into the post-classical -- Fiction beyond the canon. The "invention of fiction" -- The romance of genre -- Belief in fiction: Euhemerus and the sacred inscription -- An I for an I: reading fictional autobiography -- Metamorphoses of The ass -- Addressing power: fictional letters between Darius and Alexander -- Philostratus' heroicus: fictions of Hellenism -- Mimesis and the gendered icon in Greek theory and fiction -- Poetry and prose. Greek poets and Roman patrons in the Late Republic and Early Empire: Crinagoras, antipater and others on Rome -- The Cretan lyre paradox: Mesomedes, Hadrian and the poetics of patronage -- Lucianic paratragedy -- Quickening the classics: the politics of prose in Roman Greece -- Beyond the Greek sophistic. Politics and identity in Ezekiel's Exagoge -- Adventures of the Solymoi.
Call Number
JFE 13-7292
ISBN
  • 9780520276819 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520276817 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2013002937
OCLC
836557423
Author
Whitmarsh, Tim.
Title
Beyond the Second Sophistic : adventures in Greek postclassicism / Tim Whitmarsh.
Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 13-7292
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