The “Second Sophistic” traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire’s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and orato

The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative newcomer to the Anglophone field of classics, and much of what characterizes it temporally and culturally remain

Sophism was the single most important movement in second century literature: prose of that period came to be written as entertainment rather than confined to hi

Explores the various ways in which modern scholarship has approached the oratorical culture of the Early Imperial period.

From a workshop held at Université Laval, Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times brings together fourteen essays and a range of perspectives, includ