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of poetry, 494, 499–500, 687n17
rhetorical, 346, 348
sophistic, 4–5, 82, 223–24, 276, 335, 603
Sotadic, 128
See also learning; oratory; Second Sophistic; sophists
periodicity, 3–9. See also Second Sophistic
Peripatetics. See Aristotelians
Persia, 82, 88, 104, 157, 192, 297, 329, 390–96, 432, 616, 662. See also Greece
Persius, 16, 389, 711n4. See also comedy; poetry
Phaedrus, 502–3
Fabulae Aesopiae of, 503
See also fable; sophists
Philagrus, 44, 108, 176, 186. See also oratory; sophists
Philinus of Cos, 375. See also medicine
Philo of Alexandria, 626, 630, 640–42
koinê and, 48
religion and, 300
See also allegory; Judaism; Platonists
Philo of Byblos, 633–3
philosophy, 83–87, 292–97, 374, 411, 527–36, 539–49, 551–61, 563–77, 581–90. See also Aristotelians; Cynics; Epicureans; Middle Platonism; Neoplatonists; Platonists; Stoics
Philostratus (Elder), 26, 32, 99, 106–9, 139–40, 150–51, 273–83, 357
atticism and, 44, 49, 52–53, 485, 723n65
declamation and, 147–48, 208, 482
Epistles of, 55, 273, 513–14
Gymnasticus of, 161, 273
Heroicus of, 146, 273–74, 280–81, 283, 493, 600, 606
Imagines (first) of, 273–74, 281–83, 363
Life of Apollonius of Tyana of, 217, 273–74, 277–80, 283, 316, 534, 605–7
Lives of the Sophists of, 28, 44, 55, 58–59, 101, 121, 129–30, 149, 160–77, 192, 219, 221, 255, 273–76, 316, 373, 390, 421–22, 447, 495, 544
oratory and, 257–58
periodicity and, 3, 8, 12–13, 212
philosophy and, 237–38, 246
See also atticism; oratory; sophists
Philostratus of Lemnos (Younger), 43, 207, 274, 509, 513
on epistolary style, 274, 513
Imagines (second) of, 129, 273
See also sophists
Photius, 228, 230, 409, 449, 459, 664, 722n47, 740n39
physiognomy, 105, 117, 177–78, 281, 615, 694n5
physis, 104, 273, 412
pilgrimage, 613–20
Christian, 658
criticism of, 736n4
literature of, 362
religion and, 260, 298
See also cult; religion
Pindar, 52, 256, 434. See also poetry
Pisander of Laranda, 495–96. See also epic
Plato, 49–52, 71, 90, 95, 116–17, 121–25, 129, 256, 260, 265–66, 329, 378, 411
Apology of, 13, 532
commentaries on, 375
and Demosthenes, 335, 426
education and, 156
and Hippocrates, 378
language of, 424
letters of, 511, 514–15
Menexenus of, 89
Phaedo of, 532
Phaedrus of, 227, 236, 250, 298, 353, 407, 532
Politicus of, 423
Protagoras of, 533
Republic of, 298
Symposium of, 236, 295, 407, 532
Theaetetus of, 84–85, 533
Timaeus of, 228, 299
See also Middle Platonism; Neoplatonism; philosophy; Platonists; Socrates
Platonists, 213, 236, 346, 374, 563–77, 582, 629, 631, 731n17, 733n53
as commentators, 586–87, 590
degenerate, 339
and Skeptics, 557
and Stoics, 292, 294
See also Middle Platonism; Neoplatonism; philosophy; Plato
Pliny the Younger, 25–36, 50, 118, 124–25, 196, 487, 501–2, 510–11. See also epistolography; literature
Plutarch of Chaeronea, 291–305, 311–22, 477
biography and, 315–16
ethics and, 301–305
history and, 313–14, 318–21
miscellanies of, 447
Moralia of, 291, 347, 366
Parallel Lives of the Greeks and Romans of, 291, 311–22
philosophy and, 292–97
religion and, 297–301
Stromateis of, 447
Table Talk of, 447
See also philosophy; Platonists
Pneumatists, 375–76. See also medicine
poetry, 493–503
comic, 377
didactic, 498–99
drama and, 25, 353, 493–94, 502–3, 641
epic, 494–99
epigram and, 501–502
fable and, 502–3
geographical, 498
grammar and, 142–43
Greek, 494, 499
Hellenistic, 498
hexameter, 495
lyric, 494, 499–500
melic, 499–501
patronage of, 494
in the Second Sophistic, 493–94
See also comedy; epic; fable; Hesiod; Homer; literature; melic poetry; tragedy
Polemon, 30, 245–46. See also sophists
Polemon of Ilion, 364
Polemon of Laodicea, 437. See also sophists
Polemon of Smyrna, 32. See also sophists
Poliziano, Angelo, 448. See also Renaissance
Pollianus, 119, 501. See also epigram
Pollux of Naucratis, 44. See also oratory; sophists
Polybius of Megalopolis, 14–15, 48, 51, 316, 319, 456–57, 484, 721n28. See also historiography; history
polymathy, 274, 350, 452–55, 458. See also learning; sophists
Porphyry, 565, 574–76, 585, 661, 680, 733n53. See also commentary; Neoplatonism; philosophy; Platonists
Posidonius of Apamea, 14, 557. See also polymathy; Stoics
poverty, 220, 372, 437, 641
Priscianus, 120, 499. See also poetry
Proclus, 565, 572, 574, 680, 729n19, 729n25. See also Neoplatonism; philosophy
Proclus of Naucratis, 59, 173, 195. See also oratory; rhetoric
Pseudo-Apollodorus, 465, 467, 469
Bibliotheca of, 464
mythography of, 464–65
See also Apollodorus of Athens; mythography
Pseudo-Longinus, 8, 58, 61, 266. See also Longinus
Ptolemy, 8, 235, 591. See also technical literature
Ptolemy of Naucratis, 148–49, 207. See also oratory; rhetoric
Quintilian, 27, 33–34, 67–69, 72–78, 120, 141, 145, 205, 213, 558, 698n7. See also oratory; rhetoric
Quintus, 376–78, 382. See also medicine
Quintus of Smyrna, 495–98, 503
Posthomerica of, 495–96
See also epic; poetry
Rationalists, 375. See also medicine
religion, 20, 81, 366, 547, 617, 625
Aelius Aristides and, 605–6, 615, 704n39, 734n26
Christianity as the state, 659
cult and, 300, 597–607
Egyptian, 297, 301, 426–31
Greek, 301, 361, 426, 569, 606–7, 630, 633
magic and, 426–27
mystery, 300, 362, 604, 606, 614, 733n3, 735n38
mythology and, 604–5
Pausanias and, 366, 617
Persian, 297
Philostratus and, 274, 277–80
pilgrimage and, 613–20
Plutarch and, 291–305
traditional, 274, 361
trends in, 606–7
See also Christianity; cult; festivals; Judaism; pilgrimage
Remmius Palaemon, 123. See also grammar
Renaissance, 343, 382
retrosexuality, 115–31, 694n2. See also sex; women
Rhetores Graeci, 205. See also oratory; rhetoric
Rhetorica ad Herennium, 73, 75. See also rhetoric
rhetoric, 205–13, 377, 477–88
domestic space and sophistic, 194–96
epideictic, 3, 182, 185, 196, 210, 258, 559, 643
formation in, 205–6, 374
grammar and, 143–46
historiography and, 141, 4
87
and literary innovation, 259
locations of sophistic, 184–88
See also oratory; performance; Rhetores Graeci; Rhetorica ad Herennium; sophists
Richlin, Amy, 8, 342, 353
Rohde, Erwin, 8, 15–16, 20, 41–42, 59, 409
Roman Egypt, 427–30, 484, 613, 615, 619. See also Egypt; Roman Empire
Roman Empire, 19, 101, 291, 435, 500. See also Roman Egypt; Rome
Rome, 196, 218, 396, 401, 431–32
culture of, 67–78, 238, 248
eulogy of, 259
Greece and, 190–91, 222–26, 382, 481–82, 709n62
history of, 322, 481–82
the power of, 395
rhetoric in, 208, 211
sophists in, 173, 181–82, 186, 189, 233
See also Latin; Roman Egypt; Roman Empire
Russell, D. A., 119, 220, 240, 699n23, 702n18
Sappho, 411, 429. See also poetry
Sardanapalus, 422, 424, 426. See also Alexander the Great
satire, 25, 72, 117–20, 125, 128, 327, 329, 333–40, 389, 673, 698n8. See also Juvenal; literature; Lucian of Samosata
Satyrus, 378, 382. See also medicine
Scopelian of Clazomenae, 59, 177, 181, 189, 209, 311, 495, 502, 601, 705n15. See also poetry; sophists
Second Sophistic, 107–9, 255–58, 275, 389, 394, 399, 405, 421
agonistic culture of the, 381
Atticism of the, 435, 478
critique of the, 436–37
cultural aspirations of the, 427, 432, 435
cultural politics of the, 449
elite identity and the, 401
Greek aristocracy in the, 382
Greek influence in the, 258
history of the, 275–76
literary skill in the, 389
literature of the, 477
poetry in the, 503
rhetorical displays of the, 381
sex in the, 115–31
and the Third Sophistic, 212
See also Latin Second Sophistic; performance
Seneca, 450, 531, 646, 727n11. See also philosophy; Stoics; tragedy
Septimius Severus, 384, 585, 618
Septuagint, 19, 48, 430, 438, 646, 671, 674. See also Christianity; Judaism
sex, 115–31, 412–13
boys and, 121–25
cinaedi and, 127–29
the dinner party and, 115–17
eunuchs and, 125–27
sophists and, 129–30
women and, 117–21
See also cinaedus; misogyny; retrosexuality; women
Sextus Empiricus, 47, 143, 150, 551, 553–55, 560–61. See also philosophy; Skeptics
Sidebottom, Harry, 477
Siegel, Jeff, 429
Skeptics, 236–38, 551–61, 563–64, 568, 572, 575, 728n17. See also philosophy
slaves, 68, 83, 123, 413, 677
Socrates, 34, 86, 95, 116, 122, 195, 235–36, 260–62, 294–95, 532–33, 575–76
Apology of, 627
Christian apologists and, 628, 630–31, 737n4
companions of, 340
the daimonion of, 347
discussions of, 568
See also philosophy; Plato
Sopater, 148, 266, 689n6. See also rhetoric
sophists, 169, 426, 433
as builders, 188–94
the circle of, 174–76
Galen and the, 373–74
money and the, 172–74
oratory of the, 431
as performers, 169–78, 181–84
political influence of the, 208–9
professional attire of the, 170–71
sex and the, 129–30
See also oratory; performance; rhetoric
Sophocles, 3, 641
lips of, 129–30
Oedipus Tyrannus of, 464
Tereus of, 470
See also poetry; tragedy
Sparta, 88, 90, 192, 295, 431, 616–17, 641. See also Greece
Statius, 36, 123, 126–27. See also poetry
Stoics, 374–76, 498, 527–36. See also philosophy
Strabo of Amasia, 14, 48, 51, 61, 364, 472, 584. See also geography; history
Sulpicius Apollinaris, 31, 247. See also sophists
Swain, Simon, 14, 482, 552, 706n32
Tacitus, 7–8, 120, 207, 298, 316, 481, 485, 502, 527, 639. See also Roman Empire
Tatian, 633, 655, 741n62. See also Christianity
technical literature, 8, 117, 349, 353, 448, 450, 689n2. See also literature
Terence, 74, 690n6. See also Latin; literature
Thebes, 90, 193, 434–35, 483, 613. See also Greece
Themison, 376. See also medicine
Theocritus, 15, 119, 220, 411, 425, 429
Idylls of, 425
verses in Aeolic of, 425
See also poetry
Theon, 143
Progymnasmata of, 144–50
See also rhetoric
Thessalus of Tralles, 374. See also medicine
Thucydides, 3, 50, 52, 104, 339, 360–61, 365, 424, 478–80, 483–85. See also history; oratory
Tiberius, 48, 123, 499, 556. See also Roman Empire
tragedy, 19, 104, 339, 434, 470, 494, 502, 517, 570, 604, 640. See also literature; poetry
Trajan, 48, 382, 422, 424, 501–2. See also Roman Empire
Valesio, Paolo, 436
Varro, 68, 70, 72–73, 76–78, 297, 333. See also Latin; latinitas
Vergil, 25, 31, 76, 123, 495–97. See also Latin; poetry
Vespasian, 26, 207, 217, 534, 618, 729n8. See also Roman Empire
virtue, 75, 82, 94–95, 108, 157, 160, 189, 236, 261, 301–5, 319, 394, 338
Aspasius on, 585
Christian, 576, 626
and intellectual qualities, 351
masculine, 414
paideia and, 394–95
Philo on, 641
Platonic, 211, 566–67, 570–71
Stoic, 528
unity of, 301, 732n23
See also ethics
Vitruvius, 156, 184, 191. See also architecture
von Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Ulrich, 13, 41–42, 266
Weber, Max, 438
Whitmarsh, Tim, 3, 7, 150, 219, 223, 226, 279, 331, 415, 429, 482
women, 68, 83, 85, 92, 125–27, 130, 229, 392, 415, 470–71
ancient novel and, 694n6
boys and, 117, 125, 130, 513–14, 544
Christian, 677
education and, 305, 695n8
in Epicureanism, 539, 546
Galen on, 372–73, 381–82, 385
paideia and, 455–58
Sabine, 106
sex lives of, 117–21, 125
virtue of, 305, 576
See also misogyny; sex
Xenophon of Athens, 49, 52, 95, 235, 347, 396–97, 478–79, 483, 498, 532
Anabasis of, 366
Apology of, 13
Cyropaedia of, 118, 390, 397, 680
See also atticism; history; Persia
Xenophon of Ephesus, 389–401, 405, 606, 649, 677
Anthia and Habrocomes of, 16
Ephesiaka of, 389, 396, 398, 606
See also novel, the; literature
Zeitlin, Froma, 5, 434