Greeks and Their Past in the Second Sophistic

Bowie, Ewen

doi:10.1093/past/46.1.3

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“…Compare e.g. Marrou (1965) 304 ('tournait délibérément le dos au réel'), Bowie (1970) 28 ('flight from the present'), Anderson (1993) 101 ('nostalgic self-awareness'), Bost-Pouderon (2010) 99 ('une profonde nostalgie'). Like much Greek imperial literature, many declamations were written in an archaising and Atticising Kunstsprache.…”

Section: Aelius Aristidesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accepting the Omen: External Reference in Greek Declamation

Guast

2017

Camb. class. j.

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Traditional accounts of Greek declamation paint this important imperial genre as a flight from the alleged impotence of Greek cities under Roman rule into a nostalgic fantasy of the autonomy of the classical past. But there is clear evidence of declaimers using their works to refer to the world outside the fiction, often to the immediate performance context, and above all to themselves. This paper examines examples from Aelius Aristides, Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists and Polemo, and shows that such a practice facilitated vigorous and eloquent communication, while also allowing for any external message to be plausibly denied.

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Section: Aelius Aristidesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accepting the Omen: External Reference in Greek Declamation

Guast

2017

Camb. class. j.

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“…Swain (1996) and Whitmarsh (2001) among others discuss Imperial Attic authors and Atticism in the Second Sophistic. Therefore, it is only reasonable that during the Empire Atticism becomes the flagship promontory against Romans and Romanness, as Bowie (1970) suggests. Furthermore, the appearance of Asianism, albeit succinct, needed a counterpart, and Atticism had literary creations in its record that provided a balanced, and structurally formulated style to which authors could resort.…”

Section: Atticism: One Of the Hellenic Dialects Or A Symbol Of Greeknmentioning

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Atticism: The Language of 5th-century Oratory or a Quantifiable Stylistic Phenomenon?

Bozia

2016

Open Linguistics

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This paper comparatively explores Atticism as it first appeared in fifth-century Greek oratory and was later revived by Imperial Greek authors. Using Dionysius' of Halicarnassus and his appreciations of oratory and orators as a frame of reference and then expanding his inferences on works of Imperial era, I attempt to parameterize Atticism as a phenomenon. Ultimately this study will apprise us of the usage of Atticism in Imperial Roman oratory as well, as it then becomes obvious that Atticism has transcended the boundaries of language and has transformed into a constructional rhetorical system. This paper employs a unified node-based metric formulation for implementing various syntactical construction metrics, indicative of the syntactical attributes of the sentences. The developed metrics were applied to annotated texts of six authors, which were then comparatively examined using Principal Component Analysis.

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Section: ' Ein Völlig Romanisierter Mann ' ?mentioning

confidence: 99%