Ancient Literacies

Figure 4.5 Reconstruction of plaza in late second century C.E ., with addition of building that may be the Auditorion; view from ...

A hint at this building’s function is offered by an inscription carved on the left center pillar of the Gate of Mazaeus and Mith ...

Hueber has suggested that the U-shaped building is the Auditorion.^55 His restoration is not impossible, but the side aisles are ...

Perhaps, then, this open-fronted Auditorion was designed so that the stars of the Second Sophistic could display their talents t ...

sophists and governors: here Damianos himself put up a statue of the Proconsul Marcus Nonius Macrinus in 170/71, calling him ‘‘s ...

provincial imperial temple, there were the chief priests, priestesses, and functionaries who served it, many of them from other ...

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5 The Anecdote Exploring the Boundaries between Oral and Literate Performance in the Second Sophistic Simon Goldhill It may seem ...

A single and simple pair of contrasting images will make the point most vividly. When the embassy comes upon Achilles before his ...

action, Libanius writes himself as a hero in his own story of the intellec- tual tradition of Greek rhetoric. Now, as my mention ...

referring to the evident necessity for orators and sophists to write the spoken and to speak the written. Nor am I going to focu ...

interests in ‘‘pure Attic,’’ or Galen’s comments on good Greek, or Lucian’s angst- and humor-filled satires on obsessive interes ...

between Christianity and ancient philosophy.^15 Thechreiais usually a single sentence or brief exchange culminating in a witty o ...

The anecdote differs from thechreia, however, in that it is not com- mitted in the same way to the single witticism, nor is it q ...

the listener. Having a few good paradoxes up your sleeve can save your love life. Indeed, when the hero of the novel is trying f ...