Libanios
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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 a male rhetorician and writer from the Roman Empire who lived during the Low Roman Empire. Born in 314 in Antioch, he was a citizen of Ancient Rome and practiced paganism. He studied under Diophantus and wrote in Ancient Greek.
His notable works include *Orationes et declamationes*, *Demosthenis, Graecorum Oratorum Principis*, *Olynthiacae orationes tres*, and *Philippicae quatuor*. Other titles attributed to him are *Ditte Candiano Della gverra Troiana*, *A court of judicature, in imitation of Libanius*, and *Libanii Monodia, sive Lamentatio svper Nicomedia terrae motu subuersa*. He died in 393 in his birthplace of Antioch.
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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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Key facts
- Person.name
- Libanius
- Person.image
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ancient Rome
- Place of birth
- Antioch
- Place of death
- Antioch
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Religion
- paganism
- Image
- Libanius the sophist.jpg
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- date of birth
- 0315-00-00
- date of death
- 0393-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- time period
- Low Roman Empire
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
- Commons category
- Libanius
- Commons Creator page
- Libanius
- P8168
- Chris Brown
- significant place
- Antioch
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