Beyond the Second Sophistic : adventures in Greek postclassicism

1. Verfasser: Whitmarsh, Tim
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berkeley ; Los Angeles London : University of California Press, 2013.
Umfang/Format: xiii, 278 p. ; 24 cm.
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 1 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.