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The Second Sophistic played extremely important role in the history of the Byzantine education. Rhetorical education was based mainly on those textbooks on rhetoric which were created at the time of the Second Sophistic. Works by sophists were used as examples of the Attic style. The fact that the Greek educational tradition was continuous throughout centuries allows us to assume that educational techniques did not undergo essential change during so long time too. On this background the absence of the special sect...

The purpose of the research consisted in finding elements of theArt of Memory in the work of the prominent author of the Second Sophistic. To achieve this purpose wesubjected to the textual analysis one of the most popular works relating to the Second Sophistic: The Imagines of the Elder Philostratus. Since the Renaissance the book was subject of scientific analysis and, at the same time, source ofinspiration for many artists. Weconcentrated only on searching of elements of the Art of Memory in The Imagines. Excep...