The social world of intellectuals in the Roman Empire : sophists, philosophers, and Christians

1. Verfasser: Eshleman, Kendra, 1973-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Umfang/Format: ix, 293 p. ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Greek culture in the Roman world
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iDAI.gazetteer: Imperium Romanum
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 2 Datensätze
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  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Inclusion and identity; 2. Contesting competence: the ideal of self-determination; 3. Expertise and authority in the early church; 4. Defining the circle of sophists: Philostratus and the construction of the Second Sophistic; 5. Becoming orthodox: heresiology as self-fashioning; 6. Successions and self-definition; 7. 'From such mothers and fathers': succession narratives in early Christian discourse.