Book of Donmon Teith

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

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

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

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, philosop

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