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Chain of Gold : Greek Rhetoric in the Roman Empire.
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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Rhetorical possibilities under empire: captivity, complicity
- Sophist in exile: Dio Chrysostom's Euboean discourse
- An imperial anti-sublime: Aristides' Roman oration
- Julia Domna's dilemma: sophistic improvisation in the eastern empire
- Curated visions of manhood in Philostratus' Imagines
- No animals were harmed: sophistic rhetoric in Heliodorus' Aithiopika
- "Tiresome" Libanius: speaking to empire, addressing emperors
- Refractions of empire
- Appendix: a recuration of Philostrates' Imagines.