Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism 9780520957022

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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction. Beyond the Second Sophistic and into the Postclassical
PART ONE. Fiction beyond the Canon
1. The “Invention of Fiction”
2. The Romance of Genre
3. Belief in Fiction. Euhemerus of Messene and the Sacred Inscription
4. An I for an I. Reading Fictional Autobiography
5. Metamorphoses of the Ass
6. Addressing Power. Fictional Letters between Alexander and Darius
7. Philostratus’s Heroicus. Fictions of Hellenism
8. Mimesis and the Gendered Icon in Greek Theory and Fiction
PART TWO. Poetry and Prose
9. Greek Poets and Roman Patrons in the Late Republic and Early Empire
10. The Cretan Lyre Paradox. Mesomedes, Hadrian, and the Poetics of Patronage
11. Lucianic Paratragedy
12. Quickening the Classics. The Politics of Prose in Roman Greece
PART THREE. Beyond the Greek Sophistic
13. Politics and Identity in Ezekiel’s Exagoge
14. Adventures of the Solymoi
References
Index

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