The Second Sophistic is a literary-historical term referring to the Greek writers who flourished from the reign of Nero until c. Greek literature refers to those writings autochthonic to the areas of Greek influence typically though not necessarily in one of the Greek dialects throughout the Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( December 15, 37 – June 9, 68) born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called 230 AD and who were catalogued and celebrated by Philostratus in his Lives of the Sophists (481). Philostratus, was the name of four Greek Sophists of the Roman imperial period: (c
Writers known as members of the Second Sophistic were Aelius Aristides, Dio Cocceianus, Philostratus and Herodes Atticus. Aelius Aristides (AD 117 - 181 was a popular Greek orator who lived during the Roman Empire. Dio Chrysostom (Δίων Χρυσόστομος) Dion of Prusa or Dio Cocceianus (ca Philostratus, was the name of four Greek Sophists of the Roman imperial period: (c Herodes Atticus ( also known by his Roman name Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes Marathonios (ca
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- Jaap-Jan Flinterman, Power, paideia & pythagoreanism. Philostratus, was the name of four Greek Sophists of the Roman imperial period: (c Greek identity, conceptions of the relationship between philosophers and monarchs and political ideas in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius (1995 Amsterdam)
- Maud Gleason, Making men. Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome (1995)
- Simon Swain, Hellenism and Empire. Language, Classicism and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250 (1996 Oxford)
- Tim Whitmarsh, The Second Sophistic (2005 Oxford)
- Tim Whitmarsh, Greek Literature and the Roman Empire (2001 Oxford)
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