The 'Second Sophistic' is arguably the fastest-growing zone in modern classical scholarship. This brief, available account explores many of the ways that glossy scholarship has approached probably the most remarkable literary phenomena of antiquity, the magnificent oratorical tradition of the Early Imperial interval. Successive chapters care for historic and cultural historical past, sophistic functionality, technical treatises (including the difficulty of Atticism and Asianism), the idea that of id, and the broader effect of sophistic functionality on significant authors of the time, together with Plutarch, Lucian and the Greek novelists.
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