Being Greek under Rome : Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire

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Summary: an ear not easy to cheat?
Review: An intelligent, lively, and extremely useful collection. These essays will send readers back to the complex, fascinating texts themselves and should go a long way toward reawakening literate readers' awareness of writers who are worth the effort. Philostratus' Life of Apollonius is a real find. One wonders how this wildly zemblamatic text slipped under the radar for so long. Ditto Lucian, Heliodorus, Longus, et al.