Multiple identities in the age of the Second Sophistic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20056361 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher P Jones (0000-0002-6807-2380, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 13-22 |
| Publication date | 2004-11-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Paideia (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9783110204711.13 |
| OpenAlex | W2488501031 |
| ISBN | 9783110204711 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
In recent years much attention has been paid to the question of 'Greekness' or 'Hellenicity.' In the period of the Roman Empire, especially the 'High Empire' of the second and third centuries, a view often implied, if not always expressed, is that 'Greek' and 'Roman' are words expressing fundamental opposites. 'Greek identity,' it is claimed, 'had always been articulated through the opposition of Greeks and non-Greeks, who were called barbaroi The intensified claim of the Greeks in the second sophistic period to be Greek is a reaction to Roman control.' 1 Scrutiny has thus been turned on the cultured intellectuals, often dubbed the pepaideumenoi, whom we glimpse in Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists, for example Dio of Prusa and Aelius Aristides, or on others who appear to share their cultural attitudes, for example Pausanias
Ancient Near East History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |