Bolgov N., Bolgova A. , Litovchenko E., Procopenko S., Siniza M. «The fourth sophistry» in the cultural space of Late Antiquity (VI-th cent.) // The Turkish Online Journal of Design, Art and Communication. - March 2018 Special Edition. - Р. 578-582.

The article substantiates the phenomenon of the "fourth sophistry" as a special phase (stage) of the late-antique rhetorical tradition development. Unlike the previous ones, the representatives of the "fourth sophistry" were already Christians, they taught Christians, but they used traditional classical examples. They are separated by a century from the preceding "third sophistry". Another of their essential features is that they are provincial and connected with a school tradition. In general, the sophists of the fourth generation are important precisely in terms of knowledge transfer and the forms of this transfer. Besides, with their help, a local version of the Early Byzantine cultural synthesis was developed, which also adapted classical rhetoric.