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Author Cribiore, Raffaella.

Title The school of Libanius in late antique Antioch / Raffaella Cribiore
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (360 pages) : map
Contents Libanius and rhetoric in Antioch -- Schools and Sophists in the Roman East -- The network -- Admission and evaluation -- Teaching the logoi -- The long and the short paths to rhetoric -- After rhetoric -- Conclusion : words and silence -- Appendix 1 : the dossiers of students -- Appendix 2 : length of students' attendance
Summary 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 church like St. John Chrysostom and St. Basil the Great. Raffaella Cribiore examines Libanius's training and personality, showing him to be a vibrant educator, though somewhat gloomy and anxious by nature. She traces how he cultivated a wide network of friends and former pupils and courted powerful
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-346) and indexes
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Subject Libanius.
SUBJECT Libanius
Libanius fast
Subject Philosophy -- Study and teaching -- Turkey -- Antioch -- History
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
Philosophy -- Study and teaching
Turkey -- Antioch
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400827671
1400827671