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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 the most prestigious in the Eastern Empire. 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 his students—to offer the fullest intellectual portrait yet of this remarkable figure whom John Chrystostom called "the

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Author

Raffaella Cribiore

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801469077

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Middle Eastern History, History

Updated

2026-03-16