Paideia the world of the second sophistic /
In the World of the Second Sophistic, the Roman Empire's Greek elite turned education, paideia, and knowledge of the Classical age into a vital factor in their struggle for political power. This book presents, for the first time, studies from a broad range of disciplines on various fields of li...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
c2004.
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| Series: | Millennium-Studien ;
volume 2. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In the World of the Second Sophistic, the Roman Empire's Greek elite turned education, paideia, and knowledge of the Classical age into a vital factor in their struggle for political power. This book presents, for the first time, studies from a broad range of disciplines on various fields of life and on different media, in which this ideology became manifest. |
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| Item Description: | Most of these papers originally presented at a conference on the "World of the Second Sophistic" held at the University of Heidelberg, March 2002. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (500 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-454) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1283396823 9781283396820 9786613396822 6613396826 3110204711 9783110204711 |
| ISSN: | 0922-0887 ; |