Paideia: The World of the Second Sophistic

In the world of the Second Sophistic, the Roman Empire's Greek elite turned education, paideia, and knowledge of the classical age into a vital factor in their struggle for political power. This book presents, for the first time, studies from a broad range of disciplines on various fields of life and on different media, in which this ideology became manifest. The new paperback edition offers a revised text and new introduction. All contributions are translated into English.