12. According to Hägg, the first surviving novels were aimed at what people who lived where?
13. What two artistic traditions, according to Hägg citing Murray and Gombrich, combined to free authors to compose their Greek novels in prose rather than verse?
14. According to Merkelbach, the externals of the early novels –“separation, wanderings, trials, apparent deaths, and final reunion of the two lovers”– reflect the myth of what two Egyptian deities?
15. What, according to Hägg, are the two causes of the Greek cultural revival of the Imperial Period known as the ‘Second Sophistic’?
16. What did the original sophists teach? What did the “new” sophists teach?
17. These “new” sophists toured the Greek-speaking world putting on performances. What did their performances consist of?
18. What was the main difference of purpose between rhetoric as practiced during the Second Sophistic and the same practiced during the Classical Period in the Greek city-states and in republican Rome?
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