Sökning: "Second Sophistic."
Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden Second Sophistic..
1. Researcher, Traveller, Narrator : Studies in Pausanias' Periegesis
Sammanfattning : This is a study of the second century AD literary work 'Periegesis Hellados', i.e. description of, or guide to, Greece, written by the otherwise unknown author Pausanias. This is a purely textual study with the whole of the Periegesis as its object. LÄS MER
2. Herodes Atticus Reflected in Occasional Poetry of Antonine Athens
Sammanfattning : The occasional poetry of the Antonine period relating to the wealthy sophist and important second century AD political personality in Athens, Herodes Atticus, is studied. Some of the functions of poetry are illustrated, as it is used by one of the leading personalities of the Second Sophistic. LÄS MER
3. Erotic Language and Representations of Desire in the Philostratean Erotic Letters
Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation focuses on a corpus of seventy-three prose letters from the Imperial period, titled Erotic Letters and attributed to Philostratus. In this letter collection, different anonymous letter writers address male and female recipients who are mostly anonymous. LÄS MER