- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages)
- Uniform Title
- Beyond the Second Sophistic (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Beyond the Second Sophistic (Online)
- Subject
- Greek literature > Rome > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-273) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2013002937
- OCLC
- ssj0000949761
- Author
Whitmarsh, Tim.
- Title
Beyond the Second Sophistic [electronic resource] : adventures in Greek postclassicism / Tim Whitmarsh.
- Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-273) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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