Paideia: The World of the Second Sophistic

Frontmatter\nTable of contents\nIntroduction\nMultiple identities in the age of the Second Sophistic\nIdentities and empire: Local mythology and the self-representation of Aphrodisias\nArtemidorus and the Second Sophistic\nThe geography of the Second Sophistic: Cultural variations\nAlciphron’s letters as a sophistic text\nHorror and amazement: Colossal mythological statue groups and the new rhetoric of images in late second and early third century Rome\n‚Klassiker’ im Gymnasion. Bildnisse attischer Kosmeten der mittleren und späten Kaiserzeit zwischen Rom und griechischer Vergangenheit\nGlamorous intellectuals: Portraits of pepaideumenoi in the second and third centuries AD\nStädtische Münzprägung und zweite Sophistik\nAthletics and paideia: Festivals and physical education in the world of the Second Sophistic\nMen, muscle, and myth: Attic sarcophagi in the cultural context of the Second Sophistic\nAelius Aristides: A suitable case for treatment\nAspekte öffentlicher Bibliotheken in der Kaiserzeit\n‘Creating religious identities’: Paideia e religione nella Seconda Sofistica\nSophists and emperors: A reconnaissance of sophistic attitudes\nThe Cretan lyre paradox: Mesomedes, Hadrian and the poetics of patronage\nSophisten und Archonten: Paideia als gesellschaftliches Argument bei Libanios\nBackmatter