Sophism was the single most important movement in second century
literature. Prose of that period came to be written as
entertainment rather than confined to historical subjects. This
book provides a broad view of the cultural outlook of the second
sophistic. Graham Anderson suggests the cultural aspirations which
Greek sophists in the Roman Empire were able to cherish, and shows
how their skills in public speaking could enable them to adjust
their horizons to the variety of activities in which they could
engage. He presents the sophists' roles as civic celebrities, side
by side with their roles as transmitters of Hellenic culture and
literary artists. While studies of early Imperial culture and
society have proliferated, many simply touch on the Second
Sophistic or concentrate on only single aspects of a complex
phenomenon. This work presents a series of overlapping perspectives
and illustrations to enable the reader to form a more co-ordinated
view. Original and comprehensive, this book should be of great
interest to those concerned with the history or literature of the
Roman Empire.
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