Beyond the Second Sophistic adventures in Greek postclassicism / Tim Whitmarsh.

Author/creator Whitmarsh, Tim
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Descriptionxiii, 278 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 249-273) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013002937
ISBN9780520276819 (cloth : alk. paper)

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