Table of Contents

The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic
Daniel S. Richter and William A. Johnson, editors

I. Introductory

1. Periodicity and Scope, William A. Johnson & Daniel S. Richter
2. Greece: Hellenistic and Early Imperial Continuities, Tim Whitmarsh
3. Was There a Latin Second Sophistic?, Tom Habinek

II. Language and Identity

4. Atticism and Asianism, Lawrence Kim
5. Latinitas, Martin Bloomer
6. Cosmopolitanism, D. S. Richter
7. Ethnicity, Culture and Identity, Emma Dench
8. Retrosexuality: Sex in the Second Sophistic, Amy Richlin

III. Paideia and Performance

9. Schools and Paideia, Ruth Webb
10. Athletes and Trainers, Jason Koenig
11. Professionals of Paideia? The Sophists as Performers, Thomas A. Schmitz
12. Performance Space, Edmund Thomas

IV. Rhetoric and Rhetoricians

13. Greek and Latin Rhetorical Culture, Laurent Pernot
14. Dio Chrysostom, Claire Jackson
15. Favorinus and Herodes Atticus, Leofranc Holford-Strevens
16. Fronto and his Circle, Pascale Fleury
17. Aelius Aristides, Estelle Oudot

V. Literature and Culture

18. Philostratus, Graeme Miles
19. Plutarch: Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics, Fred Brenk
20. Plutarch's Lives, Paolo Desideri
21. Lucian of Samosata, Daniel S. Richter
22. Apuleius, S. J. Harrison
23. Pausanias, William Hutton
24. Galen, Susan Mattern
25. Chariton and Xenophon of Ephesus, J.R. Morgan
26. Longus and Achilles Tatius, Froma Zeitlin
27. The Anti-Sophistic Novel, Dan Selden
28. Miscellanies, Katerina Oikonomopoulou
29. Mythography, Stephen Trzaskoma
30. Historiography, Sulo Asirvatham
31. Poets and Poetry, Manuel Baumbach
32. Epistolography, Owen Hodkinson

VI. Philosophy and Philosophers

33. The Stoics, Gretchen Reydams-Schils
34. Epicureanism Writ Large: Diogenes of Oenoanda, Pamela Gordon
35. Skepticism, Richard Bett
36. Platonism, Ryan C. Fowler
37. The Aristotelian Tradition, Han Baltussen

VII. Religion and Religious Literature

38. Cult, Marietta Horster
39. Pilgrimage, Ian Rutherford
40. Early Christianity and the Classical Tradition, Aaron P. Johnson
41. Jewish Literature, Eric Gruen
42. The Creation of Christian Elite Culture in Roman Syria and the Near East, William Adler
43. Christian Apocrypha, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

About the Author

DSR: Associate Professor of Classics, University of Southern California and the author of Cosmopolis (OUP, 2011).

WAJ: Professor in Classical Studies, Duke University and the author of Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto, 2004), Ancient Literacies (co-editor, OUP, 2009), and Readers and Reading Culture in the High Empire (OUP, 2010).

Reviews

"... this handbook covers an unusually wide range of topics that are relevant to Hellenic culture under Rome in the first three centuries AD. Those teaching courses on any aspect of this period will consult the volume with much benefit and might even consider putting selected chapters on the syllabus." -- Silvio Bär, Classics for All
"The volume offers a central-ized resource for scholars of imperial literature and culture with chapters by many of the most respected scholars in the field. Moreover, it succeeds in illustrating that many aspects of the Second Sophistic are apparent and relevant across boundaries of time, space, ethnicity, and culture." -- Brandon Jones, New England Classical Journal
"One might almost call this valuable volume Forty Three Ways of Thinking about the So-called 'Second Sophistic'. All chapters evidence solid scholarship; some give substantial overviews of designated subject matter, others are more argumentative ... This is a truly valuable and complex volume that gives a detailed overview of the 'state of the question' regarding the Second Sophistic and its penumbra. It certainly expanded my understanding of the movement."
-- Jean Alvares, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"This volume constitutes an impressive testimony to the breadth, depth, and vivacity of contemporary research in the field ... In sum, I warmly recommend the Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic to anyone looking for up-to-date information on a broad range of aspects of imperial literature and culture." -- Martin Korenjak, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"This book constitutes a rich source of information and good judgment on a wide range of Greek and Latin literature, and for such a well-edited and well-printed volume it is relatively inexpensive. It can be recommended." -- Christopher P. Jones, Sehepunkte
"this book constitutes a rich source of information and good judgment on a wide range of Greek and Latin literature, and for such a well-edited and well-printed volume it is relatively inexpensive. It can be recommended." -- Christopher P. Jones, Sehepunkte