Sophists, Roman Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23740308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan Pablo Sánchez Hernández (University of Cyprus, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah18125.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4311493266 |
| ISBN | 9781444338386 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Philostratus coined the term “Second Sophistic” in his Lives of the sophists to refer to a group of popular orators who lived roughly between 60 and 230 ce and delighted the crowds with their speeches, combining spectacle, refined language, and historical erudition. But apart from being highly trained orators whose language was modelled after a canon of classical authors (mostly from the fifth to the fourth centuries bce ), sophists were also representatives of a burgeoning provincial elite and were considered so influential as moral and political arbiters that they were admitted into the administration of the Roman Empire.
Ancient history · Art · Crowds · Elite · Empire · Literature · Political science · Politics · Roman Empire · Spectacle · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · Computer Science · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |