Cover; THE SOCIAL WORLD OF INTELLECTUALS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE; GREEK CULTURE IN THE ROMAN WORLD; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on abbreviations; Introduction: "Who are you?" The social formation of identity; TWO ENCOUNTERS; CHRISTIANS IN THE SOCIAL WORLD OF THE SECOND SOPHISTIC; LIMITS OF THE STUDY; OVERVIEW; CHAPTER 1 Inclusion and identity; "STAY AWAY FROM MY LECTURES": ACCOMMODATIONS AND BOUNDARIES; ACCESSIBILITY AND THE IMPOSTOR PROBLEM; ATTENDANCE AND INSIDER STATUS; WOLVES IN THE SHEEPFOLD; "WE SHARE COMMUNION WITH NONE OF THEM."
THE RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF EXCLUSIVITYCONCLUSION; CHAPTER 2 Contesting competence: The ideal of self-determination; INTRODUCTION; IDIOTAI IN THE REALM OF THE PEPAIDEUMENOS; THE PROBLEM OF PATRONAGE; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 3 Expertise and authority in the early church; ORDINATION AND AUTHORITY; SIMPLICIORES AND IDIOTAI IN CHRISTIAN IDENTITY FORMATION; PATRONS AS ARBITERS OF "ORTHODOXY"; CONCLUSION: CLERICAL EXPERTISE AND ITS DISCONTENTS; CHAPTER 4 Defining the circle of sophists: Philostratus and the construction of the Second Sophistic; INTRODUCTION; HOW TO BE A PHILOSTRATEAN SOPHIST
OTHER SOPHISTS, OTHER CIRCLESCONCLUSION: SOPHISTS AND THE DISCOURSE OF CANONICITY; CHAPTER 5 Becoming orthodox: Heresiology as self-fashioning; INTRODUCTION; CONNECTIONS AND CREDENTIALS; MEMORY AND AUTHORIZATION; READING AFFINITY FROM AFFILIATION; DISCOUNTING DISSENTERS: HERESIOLOGISTS AS THE VOICE OF INSIDER CONSENSUS; THE LIMITS OF ORTHOCRACY; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 6 Successions and self-definition; INTRODUCTION; SUCCESSIONS IN THE SECOND SOPHISTIC; AUTHORIZING THE AUTHOR: QUINTILIAN; SUCCESSION AS ACCREDITATION: POMPONIUS; LOCATING THE COMMUNITY I: PHILOSOPHY AND HELLENISM
LOCATING THE COMMUNITY II: PHILOSOPHY AS A SUBSIDIARY OF CHRISTIANITYDEFINING THE COMMUNITY: GENEALOGY AS BRANDING; CONTINUITY, DEVIANCE, AND DISRUPTION; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 7 "From such mothers and fathers": Succession narratives in early Christian discourse; INTRODUCTION; HERETICAL SUCCESSIONS; Sons of Simon: Justin and Irenaeus; From the seven heresies: Hegesippus; Heresy as world-historical phenomenon: Hippolytus; SUCCESSIONS OF PROPHETS AND MARTYRS; "DIRECT FROM THE HOLY APOSTLES"; BISHOPS AS APOSTOLICI; CONCLUSION; Conclusion; References; Index
Summary
Examines the role of social networks in defining the identity of sophists, philosophers and Christians in the early Roman Empire
