After her substantial study on “The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch” (2007), Raffaella Cribiore (henceforth Cr.) Lee "Libanius the Sophist Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century" por Raffaella Cribiore disponible en Rakuten Kobo. By Rafaella Cribiore .

$49.95 Series Information Townsend Lectures Series/Cornell Studies in Classical Philology Description: Libanius of Antioch was a rhetorician of rare skill and eloquence. So renowned was he in the fourth century that his school of rhetoric in Roman Syria became among … $49.95. Libanius (314–ca. After an unsuccessful $49.95 (hb). So renowned was he in the fourth century that his school of rhetoric in Roman Syria became among the most prestigious in the Eastern Empire. Rhetoric, reality, and religion in the fourth century. Libanius (314–ca. Thanks to recent monographs and translations, among them Raffaella Cribiore's The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch (2007), Libanius's work—including 64 orations and 1,544 letters—is becoming more accessible. In autumn 336 he began four years of somewhat reluctant study at Athens under the sophist, Diophan­ tus. Libanius (Greek: Λιβάνιος, Libanios; c. 314 – 392 or 393) was a Greek teacher of rhetoric of the Sophist school. LIBANIUS (314-ca 393 A.D.), the last great pagan rhetorician and sophist, was born of a wealthy and distinguished Antioch family. Libanius, (born ad 314, Antioch, Syria—died 393), Greek Sophist and rhetorician whose orations and letters are a major source of information on the political, social, and economic life of Antioch and of the eastern part of the Roman Empire in the 4th century. Libanius the Sophist. Libanius (314–ca. Pr. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2013.

John received his literary training under Anthragathius the philosopher, and Libanius the sophist, who was the greatest Greek scholar and rhetorician of his day.

Libanius the sophist : rhetoric, reality, and religion in the fourth century. During the rise of Christian hegemony in the later Roman Empire, he remained unconverted and in religious matters was a pagan Hellene Libanius the Sophist: Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology series) by Raffaella Cribiore. In this book, Raffaella Cribiore draws on her unique knowledge of the entire body of Libanius's vast literary output-including 64 orations, 1,544 letters, and exercises for … Libanius of Antioch was a rhetorician of rare skill and eloquence. Cribiore's reassessment of Libanius' personality, career, and social interactions is splendid.

393) lived at a time when Christianity was celebrating its triumph but paganism tried to resist. Libanius the Sophist: Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century Cribiore, Raffaella Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013 pp. isbn 9780801452079. 978 0 8014 5207 9 - Volume 67 Issue 4 - Richard Lim Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2013. x, 260 pp. Libanius of Antioch was a rhetorician of rare skill and eloquence. frontispiece. The survival of so many texts by a pagan author is an invaluable resource for a period otherwise dominated by Christian writers. Libanius, (born ad 314, Antioch, Syria—died 393), Greek Sophist and rhetorician whose orations and letters are a major source of information on the political, social, and economic life of Antioch and of the eastern part of the Roman Empire in the 4th century.. After beginning his teaching career in Constantinople and Nicomedia, Libanius went to Antioch (354), where his school soon became famous.