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Paideia - The World of the Second Sophistic
Millennium-Studien 2, Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 2
ISBN/EAN: 9783110195361
Umbreit-Nr.: 1286159
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: VI, 514 S., 119 s/w Illustr., 119 b/w ill.
Format in cm: 3 x 24.5 x 18
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erscheint am 30.09.2030
Auflage: 2/2030
- Zusatztext
- In the World of the Second Sophistic, education, paideia, was a crucial factor in the discourse of power. Knowledge in the fields of medicine, history, philosophy, and poetry joined with rhetorical brilliance and a presentable manner became the outward appearance of the elite of the Eastern Roman Empire. This outward appearance guaranteed a high social status as well as political and economical power for the individual and major advantages for their hometowns in interpolis competition. Since paideia was related particularly to Classical Greek antiquity, it was, at the same time, fundamental to the new self-confidence of the Greek East. This book presents, for the first time, studies from a broad range of disciplines on various fields of life and on different media, in which this ideology became manifest. These contributions show that the Sophists and their texts were only the most prominent exponents of a system of thoughts and values structuring the life of the elite in general.
- Kurztext
- DieMillennium-Studien wollen Grenzen überschreiten, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Räumen wie auch Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen. Millennium ist international, transdisziplinär und epochenübergreifend ausgerichtet. Das Herausgebergremium und der Beirat repräsentieren ein breites Spektrum von Fächern: Kunst- und literaturwissenschaftliche Beiträge kommen ebenso zu ihrem Rechtwie historische, theologische und philosophische, Beiträge zu den lateinischen und griechischen Kulturen ebenso wie zu den orientalischen.
- Autorenportrait
- Barbara E. Borg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.