The social world of intellectuals in the Roman Empire : sophists, philosophers, and Christians /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Eshleman, Kendra, 1973-
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Σειρά: Greek culture in the roman world
• Θέματα: Κοινωνικά δίκτυα > Ρώμη; Κοινωνική δομή > Ρώμη; Ταυτότητα (Φιλοσοφία) > Ιστορία > Μέχρι το 1500.; Σοφιστές (Ελληνική φιλοσοφία); Χριστιανοί > Ρώμη; Ρώμη > Πνευματική ζωή

"This book examines the role of social networks in the formation of identity among sophists, philosophers, and Christians in the early Roman Empire. Membership in each category was established and evaluated socially as well as discursively. From clashes over admission to classrooms and communio...

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• Machine generated contents note: 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.