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FURTHER READING

The last 20 years have produced several important overviews of the Second Sophistic broadly
defined, including Anderson (1993), Schmitz (1997), and Whitmarsh (2001). Swain (1996), espe-
cially in the opening sections, is especially influential in its treatment of Greek cultural identity, and
Goldhill (2001) contains several important essays. Alcock (1993) and Woolf (1994) are treatments