Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era
roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook
serves the need for a broad and accessible overview. The study of
the Second Sophistic is a relative new-comer to the Anglophone
field of classics and much of what characterizes it temporally and
culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. The present
Handbook offers a diversity of scholarly voices that attempt to
define, as much as is possible in a single volume, the state of
this rapidly developing field. Included are chapters that offer
practical guidance on the wide range of valuable textual materials
that survive, many of which are useful or even core to inquiries of
particularly current interest (e.g. gender studies, cultural
history of the body, sociology of literary culture, history of
education and intellectualism, history of religion, political
theory, history of medicine, cultural linguistics, intersection of
the Classical traditions and early Christianity). The Handbook also
contains essays devoted to the work of the most significant
intellectuals of the period such as Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom,
Lucian, Apuleius, the novelists, the Philostrati and Aelius
Aristides. In addition to content and bibliographical guidance,
however, this volume is designed to help to situate the textual
remains within the period and its society, to describe and
circumscribe not simply the literary matter but the literary
culture and societal context. For that reason, the Handbook devotes
considerable space at the front to various contextual essays, and
throughout tries to keep the contextual demands in mind. In its
scope and in its pluralism of voices this Handbook thus represents
a new approach to the Second Sophistic, one that attempts to
integrate Greek literature of the Roman period into the wider world
of early imperial Greek, Latin, Jewish, and Christian cultural
production, and one that keeps a sharp focus on situating these
texts within their socio-cultural context.
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