The pepaideumenos in Action:
Sophists and their Outlook in the Early Empire
by Graham Anderson, Canterbury, Kent
Contents
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| Preface |
80 |
I. The Second Sophistic: Continuity and Change |
82 |
1. The perspective of Philostratus |
82 |
2. Evidence for the Late Republic |
84 |
3. Sophistes: contemporary confusion |
87 |
4. After the Second Century |
88 |
II. The Performer and his Audience |
89 |
1. The public declamation |
89 |
2. Other opportunities |
99 |
III. The pepaideumenos and his paideia I: Rhetoric and Literature |
104 |
1. Repertoire: some sophistic reflexes |
106 |
2. Repertoire: individual preferences |
110 |
3. Rhetoric into Belles-Lettres: the case of Alciphron |
113 |
4. Rhetoric into Fiction: the Second Sophistic and the Novel |
116 |
IV. The pepaideumenos and his paideia II: some converging disciplines |
118 |
1. Rhetoric and Philosophy |
118 |
2. Rhetoric and Religion |
123 |
3. Rhetoric and Grammar |
126 |
4. Rhetoric and Medicine |
127 |
5. Rhetoric into paideia: the writer's spread of interests |
129 |
6. The problem of intellectual integrity |
134 |
V. Past into Present |
137 |
1. History and paideia |
137 |
2. Chronological dislocation |
138 |
3. The visible past |
140 |
4. A political solution? |
142 |
5. Past and Present: some typical mixtures |
143 |
VI. Profession and Personality |
146 |
1. The question of status |
146 |
2. Some more associates |
153 |
3. Personality: some problems of interpretation |
156 |
4. Euphrates and Timocrates |
164 |
5. Alexander Peloplaton and Apollonius of Tyana |
165 |
6. Lucian and Galen |
166 |
7. Lucius and Arrian |
168 |
VII. Image and Illusion |
170 |
1. Some typical roles |
171 |
2. Arrian and Dexippus |
175 |
3. Vanity into fantasy |
179 |
4. Private mythology: the pepaideumenos in the world |
181 |
5. The pepaideumenos in fiction |
184 |
6. Towards an Age of Anxiety? |
188 |
VIII. Typical Texts |
192 |
1. Plutarch, 'De Deo Socratis' |
192 |
2. Favorinus, 'Corinthiacus' |
194 |
3. Dio Chrysostom, 'Olympicus' |
195 |
4. Lucian, 'De Astrologia' |
196 |
5. Conclusion: Herodes at Sirmium |
199 |
| Select Bibliography |
202 |