The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch /

The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch / / Raffaella Cribiore.

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This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent of pagan religion and a friend of the emperor Julian, but also taught leaders of the early Christian...

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Cribiore, Raffaella,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2007
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • A Note on References and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. Libanius and Rhetoric in Antioch
  • CHAPTER TWO. Schools and Sophists in the Roman East
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Network
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Admission and Evaluation
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Teaching the Logoi
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Long and Short Paths to Rhetoric
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. After Rhetoric
  • CONCLUSION. Words and Silence
  • APPENDIX ONE. Dossiers of Students
  • APPENDIX TWO. Length of Students' Attendance
  • APPENDIX THREE. Concordance of Letters in Appendix One Translated into English
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • Index

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