The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire: Sophists, Philosophers, and Christians

ISBN-13: 9781107624412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 303 str.

Kendra Eshleman

Opis

Examines the role of social networks in defining the identity of sophists, philosophers and Christians in the early Roman Empire.

Recenzje

'This is much more than a 'first' book, however highly one may rank it; it is a book which masterly reveals the 'common set of culturally available strategies of self-definition' in use by both pagan pepaideumenoi and Christian intellectuals of the Imperial age.' Dimitris Karambelas, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Inclusion and identity; 2. Contesting competence: the ideal of self-determination; 3. Expertise and authority in the early church; 4. Defining the circle of sophists: Philostratus and the construction of the Second Sophistic; 5. Becoming orthodox: heresiology as self-fashioning; 6. Successions and self-definition; 7. 'From such mothers and fathers': succession narratives in early Christian discourse.