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Chain of Gold - Greek Rhetoric in the Roman Empire (Paperback)
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Chain of Gold - Greek Rhetoric in the Roman Empire (Paperback)
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Barred from political engagement and legal advocacy, the second
sophists composed and performed epideictic works for audiences
across the Mediterranean world during the early centuries of the
Common Era. In a wide-ranging study, author Susan C. Jarratt argues
that these artfully wrought discourses, formerly considered vacuous
entertainments, constitute intricate negotiations with the absolute
power of the Roman Empire. Positioning culturally Greek but
geographically diverse sophists as colonial subjects, Jarratt
offers readings that highlight ancient debates over free speech and
figured discourse, revealing the subtly coded commentary on Roman
authority and governance embedded in these works. Through allusions
to classical Greek literature, sophists such as Dio Chrysostom,
Aelius Aristides, and Philostratus slipped oblique challenges to
empire into otherwise innocuous works. Such figures protected their
creators from the danger of direct confrontation but nonetheless
would have been recognized by elite audiences, Roman and Greek
alike, by virtue of their common education. Focusing on such
moments, Jarratt presents close readings of city encomia,
biography, and texts in hybrid genres from key second sophistic
figures, setting each in its geographical context. Although all the
authors considered are male, the analyses here bring to light
reflections on gender, ethnicity, skin color, language differences,
and sexuality, revealing an underrecognized diversity in the
rhetorical activity of this period. While US scholars of ancient
rhetoric have focused largely on the pedagogical, Jarratt brings a
geopolitical lens to her study of the subject. Her inclusion of
fourth-century texts-the Greek novel Ethiopian Story, by
Heliodorus, and the political orations of Libanius of
Antioch-extends the temporal boundary of the period. She concludes
with speculations about the pressures brought to bear on sophistic
political subjectivity by the rise of Christianity and with
ruminations on a third sophistic in ancient and contemporary eras
of empire.
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