Bibliographies for Authors of the Second Sophistic

One of life's greatest tragedies is opportunity cost.

One of the benefits of my recent class was a weekly presentation on a different author whose works we were NOT reading in class. It gave context to the author we were studying and it was great to learn what I don't know. Good thing there's a long life - there's a lot to cover. The presentations were interesting, and I suspect the most lasting contribution may be the bibliographies. If I'm ever bored and don't know what to study, I'll start here.


Below the cut are bibliographies for the following authors:

• Achilles Tatius
• Athenaeus
• Favorinus
• Fronto
• Lucian
• Macrobius
• Maximus of Tyre
• Philostratus
• Pliny the Elder
• Pliny the Younger
• Quinutus of Smyrna
• Seneca the Elder

Achilles Tatius

Morales, Helen. Vision and Narrative in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 4.

Sandy, Gerald. The Greek World of Apuleius: Apuleius and the Second Sophistic. Koninklijke Brill: Netherlands, 1997, 244.

Finkelpearl, Ellen D. Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel. Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 1998, 171.

 

Athenaeus

Olsen, S. Douglas. The Learned Banqueters, introduction. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2006.

McClure, Laura K. Courtesans at Table: Gender and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaeus. New York: Routledge, 2003, 34.

 

Favorinus

Beall, S. "Homo Fandi Dulcissimus: The Role of Favorinus in the "Attic Nights" of Aulus Gellius." The American Journal of Philology, 122(1), 87-106.

 

Fronto

Feisenbruch, A. "Back to Fronto: Doctor and Patient in his Correspondence with an Emperor." In Morello, R. & A.D. Morrison (Ed.). Ancient Letters: Classical and Late Antique Epistolography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Richlin, A. Marcus Aurelius in Love. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. (Katie's comment: Now THAT is a fantastic book title.)

Champlin, E. Fronto and Antonine Rome. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1980.

Haines, C.R. (trans.) Fronto: Correspondence, vol. I, II. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928.

Haines, C. R. "Fronto." The Classical Review, 34 (1/2), 14-18.

Haines, C.R. "On the Chronology of the Fronto Corresponence." The Classical Quarterly, 8(2), 112-120.

 

Lucian

Anderson, G. "Lucian. A Sophist's Sophist." Yale Classical Studies 27 (1982): 61-92.

Anderson, Graham. "Tradition and Reality in Lucian." The Classical Review 41.1 (1991): 40-42.

Baldwin, B. "Lucian as a Social Satirist." The Classical Quarterly 11.2 (November 1961): 199-208.

Branham, R.B. "The Comic as Critic, Revenging Epicurus A Study of Lucian's Art of Comic Narrative." Classical Antiquity 3 (1984): 143-163.

Branham, R. Bracht. Unruly Eloquence: Lucian and the Comedy of Traditions. Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Edwards, M.J. "Satire and Versimilitude: Christianity in Lucian's 'Peregrinus.'" Historia: Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte 38.1 (First Quarter 1989): 89-98.

Jones, C.P. Culture and Society in Lucian. Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Richter, Daniel. "Lives and Afterlives of Lucian of Samosata." Arion 13.1 (Spring-Summer 2005): 75-100.

 

Macrobius

Kelly, Douglas. The Conspiracy of Allusion: Description, Rewriting, and Authorship from Macrobius to Medieval Romance. Boston: Brill, 1999.

Stahl, William Harris, trans. Commentary on the Dream of Scipio. 1952 New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Whittaker, Thomas. Macrobius, or Philosophy, Science and Letters in the Year 400. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Willis, Jacob. Ambrosii Thedosii Macrobii: Saturnalia. Vol. I. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, 1970.

 

Maximus of Tyre

Koniaris, George Leonidas. "On Maximus of Tyre: Zetemata I." Classical Antiquity (University of California Press) 1, no. 1 (April 1982): 87-121.

 

Philostratus

Beall, Stephen M. "Word-Painting in the 'Imagines' of the Elder Philostratus." Hermes 121, no. 3 (1993): 350-363.

Billault, Alain. "The Rhetoric of a 'Divine Man': Apollonius of Tyana as Critic of Oratory and Orator According to Philostratus." Philosophy and Rhetoric 26, no. 3 (1993): 227-235.

Bowie, Ewen. "A Protean Corpus." In Philostratus, by Ewen Bowie and Jas Elner, 1-25.

Bowie, Ewen. "Apollonius of Tyana: Tradition and Reality." ANRW II, no. 16.2 (1978): 1652-1699.

Elsner, John. "Hagiographic Geography: Travel and Allegory in the Life of Apollonius of Tyana." The Journal of Hellenistic Studies 117 (1997): 22-37.

Eshleman, Kendra. "Defining the Circle of Sophists: Philostratus and the Construction of the Second Sophistic." Classical Philology 103, no. 4 (2008): 395-413.

Francis, James A. "Truthful Fiction: New Questions to Old Answers on Philostratus' 'Life of Apollonius'." The Journal of American Philology 119, no. 3 (1998): 419-441.

Shaffer, Diana. "Ekphrasis and the Rhetoric of Viewing in Philostratus' Imaginary Museum." Philosophy and Rhetoric 31, no. 4 (1998): 303-316.

Schmitz, Thomas. "Narrator and Audience in Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists." Philostratus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

 

Pliny the Elder

Baldwin, Barry. "Pliny the Elder and Mucianus." Emerita 63.2 (1995): 291-301. Print.

Baldwin, Barry. "Stylistic Notes on the Elder Pliny's Preface." Latomus 64.1 (2005): 91-95. Print.

Beagon, Mary. Roman Nature: the Thought of Pliny the Elder. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992. Print.

Bergmann, Bettina. "Greek Masterpieces and Roman Recreative Fictions." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 97 (1997): 79-120. Print.

Conte, Gian Biagio. Genres and Readers: Lucretius, Love Elegy, Pliny's Encyclopedia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994. Print.

Eichholz, D. E. "The Style of the Elder Pliny." The Classical Review, New Series 8.1 (1958): 51-53. Print.

Fögen, Thorsten. "Pliny the Elder's Animals : Some Remarks on the Narrative Structure of Nat. Hist. 8-11." Hermes 135.2 (2007): 184-98. Print.

French, R. K., and Frank Greenaway. Science in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Elder, His Sources and Influence. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1986. Print.

Healy, John F. Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999. Print.

Henderson, John. "Knowing Someone through Their Books : Pliny on Uncle Pliny (Epistles 3.5)." Classical Philology 97.3 (2002): 256-84. Print.

Hershkowitz, Debra. "Pliny the Poet." Greece & Rome, Second Series 42.2 (1995): 168-81. Print.

Hutchinson, G. O. "The Moralizing of the Elder Pliny." The Classical Review, New Series 43.1 (1993): 61-63. Print.

Isager, Jacob, and Pliny. Pliny on Art and Society: the Elder Pliny's Chapters on the History of Art. London: Routledge, 1991. Print.

Lipscomb, Herbert C., and Richard M. Haywood. "The Strange Death of the Elder Pliny." The Classical Weekly 47.5 (1954): 74. Print.

Murphy, Trevor M. Pliny the Elder's "Natural History": The Empire in the Encyclopedia. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. Print.

Nauert, C. G. "Humanists, Scientists, and Pliny. Changing Approaches to a Classical Author." American Historical Review 84 (1979): 72-85. Print.

Nicols, John. "Pliny and the Patronage of Communities." Hermes 108.3 (1980): 365-85. Print.

Pliny, The Elder, and Mary Beagon. The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal: Natural History, Book 7. Oxford: Clarendon, 2005. Print.

Rives, James B. "Magic in Roman Law: The Reconstruction of a Crime." Classical Antiquity 22.2 (2003): 313-39. Print.

Schenkeveld, Dirk M. "The Idea of Progress and the Art of Grammar." American Journal of Philology 119.3 (1998): 443-59. Print.

Steiner, G. "The Skepticism of the Elder Pliny." The Classical World 48 (1955): 137-43. Print.

Sutton, David. "Pliny the Elder: Collector of Knowledge." The Great Naturalists. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. 38-43. Print.

Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew. "Pliny the Elder and Man's Unnatural History." Greece and Rome 37 (1990): 80-96. Print.

 

Pliny the Younger

Walsh, P.G. Pliny the Younger: Complete Letters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Hoffer, Stanley E. The Anxieties of Pliny the Younger. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press and The American Philological Association, 1999.

Marchesi, Ilaria. The Art of Pliny's Letters: A Poetics of Allusion in the Private Correspondence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

 

Quintus Smyrnaeus

Baumback, Manuel and Silvio Bar. "An Introduction to Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica." In Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in the Second Sophistic, 1-29.

James, Alan W. "Quintus of Smyrna and Vergil-A Matter of Prejudice." In Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in the Second Sophistic, 1-29.

Quintus of Smyrna. The Trojan Epic: Posthomerica. Translated by Alan James. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Unversity Press, 2004.

Schubert, Paul. "From the Epics to the Second Sophistic, from Hecuba to Aethra, and Finally from Troy to Athens: Defining the Position of Quintus Smyrnaeus in his Posthomerica." In Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in the Second Sophistic, 1-29.

White, Heather. Studies in Late Greek Epic Poetry. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1987.

 

Seneca the Elder

Enos, Richard Leo. Roman Rhetoric: Revolution and the Greek Influence. West Lafayette: Parlor press, 2008.

Goldhill, Simon. "Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic." The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric. Ed. Erik Gunderson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Griffin, Miriam. "The Elder Seneca and Spain." The Journal of Roman Studies 62 (1972): 1-19.

Pagan, Victoria Emma. "Teaching Torture in Seneca Controversiae 2.5." The Classical Journal 103.2 (2007/2008): 165-182.

Seneca the Elder. Controversiae et Suasoriae. Trans. M. Winterbottom. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.

Sochatoff, Fred A. "The 'meliores annos' of the Elder Seneca." The Classical Weekly 39.9 (1945): 70-71.

Sochatoff, Fred A. "Basic Rhetorical Theories of the Elder Seneca." The Classical Journal, 34.6 (1939): 345-354.

Sussman, Lewis A. "The Elder Seneca's Discussion of the Decline of Roman Eloquence." California Studies in Classical Antiquity 5 (1972): 195-210.

Sussman, Lewis A. The Elder Seneca. Leiden: Brill, 1978.