Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.33.1, pp. 79-208
 
The pepaideumenos in Action: Sophists and their Outlook in the Early Empire
by Graham Anderson, Canterbury, Kent

Contents

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
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