Second Sophistic

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cultural movement literary movement rhetorical movement

The Second Sophistic was a cultural and rhetorical movement of the Roman Imperial period marked by a revival of classical Greek oratory and literary style among elite intellectuals.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ rhetorical movement ⓘ
associatedWithEmpire	Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
chronologicalEnd	3rd century CE ⓘ
chronologicalPeak	2nd century CE ⓘ
chronologicalStart	1st century CE ⓘ
culturalContext	Greek culture under Roman rule ⓘ
emphasis	atticizing style ⓘ classical Greek models ⓘ display oratory ⓘ literary classicism ⓘ paideia (elite education) ⓘ philhellenism ⓘ public declamation ⓘ rhetorical performance ⓘ rhetorical virtuosity ⓘ
function	articulation of Greek cultural identity ⓘ elite self-representation ⓘ
genre	biography ⓘ epideictic oratory ⓘ local history ⓘ paradoxography ⓘ rhetorical declamations ⓘ sophistic dialogues ⓘ travel narrative ⓘ
geographicFocus	Asia Minor NERFINISHED ⓘ Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ eastern Mediterranean NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	late antique Greek literature ⓘ later Byzantine rhetoric ⓘ
intellectualMilieu	Roman Imperial elite culture ⓘ
keySource	Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek NERFINISHED ⓘ
mainFeature	revival of classical Greek literary style ⓘ revival of classical Greek oratory ⓘ
notableFigure	Aelius Aristides NERFINISHED ⓘ Dio Chrysostom NERFINISHED ⓘ Favorinus of Arelate NERFINISHED ⓘ Herodes Atticus NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucian of Samosata NERFINISHED ⓘ Maximus of Tyre NERFINISHED ⓘ Philostratus NERFINISHED ⓘ Polemon of Laodicea NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedTo	Atticism NERFINISHED ⓘ Greek identity under Rome ⓘ Greek paideia ⓘ
socialBase	Greek-speaking elites ⓘ urban intellectuals ⓘ
timePeriod	Roman Imperial period NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander → culturalContext → Second Sophistic ⓘ

Herodes Atticus → era → Second Sophistic ⓘ

Numenius of Apamea → era → Second Sophistic ⓘ

Athenaeus → historicalPeriod → Second Sophistic ⓘ

Life of Alexander → literaryMovement → Second Sophistic ⓘ

Libanius → movement → Second Sophistic ⓘ