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100 1  Jarratt, Susan Carole Funderburgh,|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n89645156|eauthor. 
245 10 Chain of Gold :|bGreek Rhetoric in the Roman Empire. 
264  1 Carbondale :|bSouthern Illinois University Press,|c2019. 
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505 0  Rhetorical possibilities under empire: captivity, 
       complicity -- Sophist in exile: Dio Chrysostom's Euboean 
       discourse -- An imperial anti-sublime: Aristides' Roman 
       oration -- Julia Domna's dilemma: sophistic improvisation 
       in the eastern empire -- Curated visions of manhood in 
       Philostratus' Imagines -- No animals were harmed: 
       sophistic rhetoric in Heliodorus' Aithiopika -- "Tiresome"
       Libanius: speaking to empire, addressing emperors -- 
       Refractions of empire -- Appendix: a recuration of 
       Philostrates' Imagines. 
520    Barred from political engagement and legal advocacy, the 
       second sophists composed and performed epideictic works 
       for audiences across the Mediterranean world during the 
       early centuries of the Common Era. In a wide-ranging study,
       author Susan C. Jarratt argues that these artfully wrought
       discourses, formerly considered vacuous entertainments, 
       constitute intricate negotiations with the absolute power 
       of the Roman Empire. Positioning culturally Greek but 
       geographically diverse sophists as colonial subjects, 
       Jarratt offers readings that highlight ancient debates 
       over free speech and figured discourse, revealing the 
       subtly coded commentary on Roman authority and governance 
       embedded in these works. Through allusions to classical 
       Greek literature, sophists such as Dio Chrysostom, Aelius 
       Aristides, and Philostratus slipped oblique challenges to 
       empire into otherwise innocuous works. Such figures 
       protected their creators from the danger of direct 
       confrontation but nonetheless would have been recognized 
       by elite audiences, Roman and Greek alike, by virtue of 
       their common education. Focusing on such moments, Jarratt 
       presents close readings of city encomia, biography, and 
       texts in hybrid genres from key second sophistic figures, 
       setting each in its geographical context. Although all the
       authors considered are male, the analyses here bring to 
       light reflections on gender, ethnicity, skin color, 
       language differences, and sexuality, revealing an 
       underrecognized diversity in the rhetorical activity of 
       this period. While US scholars of ancient rhetoric have 
       focused largely on the pedagogical, Jarratt brings a 
       geopolitical lens to her study of the subject. Her 
       inclusion of fourth-century texts--the Greek novel 
       Ethiopian Story, by Heliodorus, and the political orations
       of Libanius of Antioch--extends the temporal boundary of 
       the period. She concludes with speculations about the 
       pressures brought to bear on sophistic political 
       subjectivity by the rise of Christianity and with 
       ruminations on a third sophistic in ancient and 
       contemporary eras of empire. -- Publisher. 
588 0  Print version record. 
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650  0 Rhetoric, Ancient.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh85113634 
650  0 Greek literature|xHistory and criticism.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105403 
650  7 Rhetoric, Ancient.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1096982 
650  7 Greek literature.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
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655  0 Electronic books. 
655  4 Electronic books. 
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aJarratt, Susan C.|tChain of Gold : Greek
       Rhetoric in the Roman Empire.|dCarbondale : Southern 
       Illinois University Press, ©2019|z9780809337538 
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