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Chain of gold : Greek rhetoric in the Roman empire /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jarratt, Susan Carole Funderburgh (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Greek literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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.