Libanius
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Libanius (; ) was a teacher of rhetoric of the Sophist school in the Eastern Roman Empire. His prolific writings make him one of the best documented teachers of higher education in the ancient world and a critical source of history of the Greek East during the 4th century AD. During the rise of Christian hegemony in the later Roman Empire, he remained unconverted and in religious matters was a pagan Hellene.
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Libanius was an Ancient Roman rhetorician and writer who lived during the Roman Empire and Low Roman Empire periods. Born in Antioch in 315, he was a student of Diophantus. He wrote in Ancient Greek and adhered to paganism. Libanius died in Antioch in 393.
His literary output includes works such as *Orationes et declamationes*, *Demosthenis, Graecorum Oratorum Principis*, and *Olynthiacae orationes tres, & Philippicae quatuor*. Other notable texts include *Libanii Monodia, sive Lamentatio svper Nicomedia terrae motu subuersa* and *A court of judicature, in imitation of Libanius*. He is also associated with the work *Ditte Candiano Della gverra Troiana*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 314
- Died
- 393
- Works
- 44
Top works
- Ditte Candiano Della gverra Troiana
- Orationes et declamationes
- Demosthenis, Graecorum Oratorum Principis, Olynthiacae orationes tres, & Philippicae quatuor
- A court of judicature, in imitation of Libanius
- Libanii Monodia, sive Lamentatio svper Nicomedia terrae motu subuersa
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Letters
· 1992 · cited 3x
- Oration 21. To the Caesarius, Master of Offices
· 1977
- Oration 17. The Lament over Julian
· 1969
- Oration 13. To Julian
· 1969
- Oration 12. To the Emperor Julian as Consul
· 1969
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- Person.name
- Libanius
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- File:Libanius the sophist.jpg
- Person.image_size
- 250px
- Person.caption
- Libanius as imagined in an eighteenth-century woodcut
- Person.birth_place
- Antioch, Coele-Syria
- Person.death_date
- 392 or 393 AD
- Person.death_place
- Antioch, Coele-Syria
- Person.occupation
- Teacher of rhetoric
- Person.notable_works
- Oration I, A Reply To Aristides On Behalf Of The Dancers, Lamentation
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Libanius (; ) was a teacher of rhetoric of the Sophist school in the Eastern Roman Empire. His prolific writings make him one of the best documented teachers of higher education in the ancient world and a critical source of history of the Greek East during the 4th century AD. During the rise of Christian hegemony in the later Roman Empire, he remained unconverted and in religious matters was a pagan Hellene.
==Life== ===Origin=== Libanius was born in Antioch, Coele-Syria located near the modern-day city of Antakya, Turkey. He was born into a deeply cultured and once-influential family that had experienced substantial recent decline. In 303 AD, eleven years before his birth, his family had participated in resisting an insurrection by a local army garrison, led by a certain Eugenius. In the end, Roman Imperial authorities were equally concerned by local aristocrats arming themselves as they were by the rebellious troops. Libanius' family fell out of favor and his grandfather was executed. Libanius' father died when he was eleven, leaving his upbringing to his mother and maternal uncles, who were in the process of rebuilding his family's reputation.
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