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en-wikipedia-org-1319		Second Sophistic - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2523	288	69	Writers known as members of the Second Sophistic include Nicetas of Smyrna, Aelius Aristides, Dio Chrysostom, Herodes Atticus, Favorinus, Philostratus, Lucian, and Polemon of Laodicea. Thus, by the time of the Roman Empire, a sophist was simply a teacher of rhetoric and a popular public speaker. 1 The Sophistic of the second century and the Roman Empire The Sophistic of the second century and the Roman Empire[edit] Many of them paid patronage to Athens and other Greek cities in the Empire.[5] Elites sent their sons to be educated in schools developed by these sophists. The Emperor Hadrian sent his adoptive son Antoninus to study under the acclaimed Polemo in Smyrna.[5] The Second Sophistic opened doors for the Greeks to prosper surprisingly, in many ways on their own terms. G.W. Bowersock, Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire. ^ G.W. Bowersock, Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire, page 26 (1969 Oxford. ^ G.W. Bowersock, Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire, page 26 (1969 Oxford.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1319.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1319.txt