Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Multiple identities in the age of the Second Sophistic -- Identities and empire: Local mythology and the self-representation of Aphrodisias -- Artemidorus and the Second Sophistic -- The geography of the Second Sophistic: Cultural variations -- Alciphron's letters as a sophistic text -- Horror and amazement: Colossal mythological statue groups and the new rhetoric of images in late second and early third century Rome -- ‚Klassiker' im Gymnasion. Bildnisse attischer Kosmeten der mittleren und späten Kaiserzeit zwischen Rom und griechischer Vergangenheit -- Glamorous intellectuals: Portraits of pepaideumenoi in the second and third centuries AD -- Städtische Münzprägung und zweite Sophistik -- Athletics and paideia: Festivals and physical education in the world of the Second Sophistic -- Men, muscle, and myth: Attic sarcophagi in the cultural context of the Second Sophistic -- Aelius Aristides: A suitable case for treatment -- Aspekte öffentlicher Bibliotheken in der Kaiserzeit -- 'Creating religious identities': Paideia e religione nella Seconda Sofistica -- Sophists and emperors: A reconnaissance of sophistic attitudes -- The Cretan lyre paradox: Mesomedes, Hadrian and the poetics of patronage -- Sophisten und Archonten: Paideia als gesellschaftliches Argument bei Libanios -- Backmatter.