9780197602218-0197602215-The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic (Oxford Handbooks)

The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic (Oxford Handbooks)

ISBN-13: 9780197602218
ISBN-10: 0197602215
Author: William A. Johnson, Daniel S. Richter
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 772 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780197602218
ISBN-10: 0197602215
Author: William A. Johnson, Daniel S. Richter
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 772 pages

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The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic (Oxford Handbooks) (ISBN-13: 9780197602218 and ISBN-10: 0197602215), written by authors William A. Johnson, Daniel S. Richter, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Greece (Ancient Civilizations History, Greek & Roman, Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic (Oxford Handbooks) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Greece books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.65.

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Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook serves the need for a broad and accessible overview. The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative new-comer to the Anglophone field of classics and much of whatcharacterizes it temporally and culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. This Handbook offers a diversity of scholarly voices that attempt to define, as much as is possible in a single volume, the state of this rapidly developing field. Included are chapters that offer practicalguidance on the wide range of valuable textual materials that survive, many of which are useful or even core to inquiries of particular current areas of interest, including: gender studies, cultural history of the body, sociology of literary culture, history of education and intellectualism, historyof religion, political theory, history of medicine, cultural linguistics, and, intersection of the Classical traditions and early Christianity.The Handbook also contains essays devoted to the work of the most significant intellectuals of the period such as Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom, Lucian, Apuleius, the novelists, the Philostrati and Aelius Aristides. In addition to content and bibliographical guidance, however, this volume is designed tohelp to situate the textual remains within the period and its society, to describe and circumscribe not simply the literary matter but the literary culture and societal context. For that reason, the Handbook devotes considerable space at the front to various contextual essays, and throughout triesto keep the contextual demands in mind. In its scope and in its pluralism of voices this Handbook thus represents a new approach to the Second Sophistic, one that attempts to integrate Greek literature of the Roman period into the wider world of early imperial Greek, Latin, Jewish, and Christiancultural production, and one that keeps a sharp focus situating these texts within their socio-cultural context.

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