Backmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Multiple identities in the age of the Second Sophistic 13
5. Identities and empire: Local mythology and the self-representation of Aphrodisias 23
6. Artemidorus and the Second Sophistic 53
7. The geography of the Second Sophistic: Cultural variations 65
8. Alciphron’s letters as a sophistic text 87
9. Horror and amazement: Colossal mythological statue groups and the new rhetoric of images in late second and early third century Rome 105
10. ‚Klassiker’ im Gymnasion. Bildnisse attischer Kosmeten der mittleren und späten Kaiserzeit zwischen Rom und griechischer Vergangenheit 131
11. Glamorous intellectuals: Portraits of pepaideumenoi in the second and third centuries AD 157
12. Städtische Münzprägung und zweite Sophistik 179
13. Athletics and paideia: Festivals and physical education in the world of the Second Sophistic 203
14. Men, muscle, and myth: Attic sarcophagi in the cultural context of the Second Sophistic 229
15. Aelius Aristides: A suitable case for treatment 277
16. Aspekte öffentlicher Bibliotheken in der Kaiserzeit 293
17. ‘Creating religious identities’: Paideia e religione nella Seconda Sofistica 315
18. Sophists and emperors: A reconnaissance of sophistic attitudes 359
19. The Cretan lyre paradox: Mesomedes, Hadrian and the poetics of patronage 377
20. Sophisten und Archonten: Paideia als gesellschaftliches Argument bei Libanios 403
21. Backmatter 419