Beyond the Second Sophistic [electronic resource] : adventures in Greek postclassicism / Tim Whitmarsh.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitmarsh, Tim (Author)
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Greek literature > Rome > History and criticism.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2013 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2013 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2013 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism
Format: Electronic eBook
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.