Beyond the Second Sophistic adventures in Greek postclassicism / Tim Whitmarsh.
| Author/creator | Whitmarsh, Tim |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013] |
| Description | xiii, 278 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Beyond the Second Sophistic, into the post-classical -- Fiction beyond the canon. The "invention of fiction" -- The romance of genre -- Belief in fiction: Euhemerus and the sacred inscription -- An I for an I: reading fictional autobiography -- Metamorphoses of The ass -- Addressing power: fictional letters between Darius and Alexander -- Philostratus' heroicus: fictions of Hellenism -- Mimesis and the gendered icon in Greek theory and fiction -- Poetry and prose. Greek poets and Roman patrons in the Late Republic and Early Empire: Crinagoras, antipater and others on Rome -- The Cretan lyre paradox: Mesomedes, Hadrian and the poetics of patronage -- Lucianic paratragedy -- Quickening the classics: the politics of prose in Roman Greece -- Beyond the Greek sophistic. Politics and identity in Ezekiel's Exagoge -- Adventures of the Solymoi. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-273) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013002937 |
| ISBN | 9780520276819 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |