Chain of Gold : Greek Rhetoric in the Roman Empire.

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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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jarratt, Susan Carole Funderburgh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Rhétorique ancienne.
Littérature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Greek literature
Rhetoric, Ancient
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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