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A professor of Greek rhetoric, frequent letter writer and influential social figure, Libanius (AD 314-393) is a key author for anybody interested in Late Antiquity, ancient rhetoric, ancient epistolography and ancient biography. Nevertheless, he remains understudied because it is such a daunting task to access his large and only partially translated oeuvre. This volume, which is the first comprehensive study of Libanius, offers a critical introduction to the man, his texts, their context and reception. Clear presentations of the orations, progymnasmata, declamations and letters unlock the corpus, and a survey of all available translations is provided. At the same time, the volume explores new interpretative approaches of the texts from a variety of angles. Written by a team of established as well as upcoming experts in the field, it substantially reassesses works such as the Autobiography, the Julianic speeches and letters, and Oration 30 For the Temples.

Libanius --- Libanios --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Livaniĭ --- Libanio

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Humanists --- Humanism --- Humanistes --- Humanisme --- History --- Histoire --- Libanius --- Criticism and interpretation --- Conferences - Meetings --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Libanios --- Livaniĭ --- Libanio --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Oratory, Ancient --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek --- -Greek orations --- Greek speeches --- History and criticism --- Libanius --- -Livaniĭ --- Libanios --- Libanio --- Criticism and interpretation --- -History and criticism --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -Libanios --- Greek orations --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Livaniĭ

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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 sophist of the city."Libanius (314-ca. 393) lived at a time when Christianity was celebrating its triumph but paganism tried to resist. Although himself a pagan, Libanius cultivated friendships within Antioch's Christian community and taught leaders of the Church including Chrysostom and Basil of Caesarea. Cribiore calls him a "gray pagan" who did not share the fanaticism of the Emperor Julian. Cribiore considers the role that a major intellectual of Libanius's caliber played in this religiously diverse society and culture. When he wrote a letter or delivered an oration, who was he addressing and what did he hope to accomplish? One thing that stands out in Libanius's speeches is the startling amount of invective against his enemies. How common was character assassination of this sort? What was the subtext to these speeches and how would they have been received? Adapted from the Townsend Lectures that Cribiore delivered at Cornell University in 2010, this book brilliantly restores Libanius to his rightful place in the rich and culturally complex world of Late Antiquity.

HISTORY --- Ancient / Rome --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Libanius --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Libanios --- Ancient History & Classical Studies. --- Literary Studies. --- Sophistik --- HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. --- Sophisten --- Zweite Sophistik --- Griechenland --- Livaniĭ --- Libanio

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While Libanios was content to praise the countryside in his teaching and classes, his speeches, firmly linked to everyday life, present reality differently. It is all of these passages that have been the subject of our study and that we have called the discourse of rural realities. Perhaps this crucial point should be emphasized. The real subject of the Lebanese discourse, to which in fact all the information the speaker gives us about the campaign, is the survival of his city and, more importantly, its greatness. These necessarily go through the control of the rural territory of the city.For Libanios, the interdependence between the urban center and the countryside of Antioch is absolute, it constitutes a socio-political and economic system which must remain autonomous, in particular vis-à-vis other political forces which, like the Empire, want to break its unity. Libanios thus perceives his time as a period of transition, a turning point, when the Antiochene moved from one type of social relationship to another. His speeches, better than any other source, reflect the fear of a class losing its prerogatives. Because, precisely, if city and countryside form a compact whole, they remain in fact distinct realities, whose interests diverge and oppose each other. The urban center is the seat of political power, the place of residence of landowners: as such, it has always sought to dominate the countryside.Libanios lives and works during an age of transformation and social conflict. He is aware of it; his protests are those of a member of the ruling class who measures changes in society. Reading his writings, especially his words about land, peasants and agricultural production, one can see the transition from one way of life to another. The speaker of Antioch belongs to a generation which sees, to the detriment of the πόλις, the birth of new social, economic and cultural relations, as well as the definitive transfer of political power to the seat of the Empire.

Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Libanius --- Livaniĭ --- Libanios --- Libanio --- Criticism and interpretation. --- développement économique --- paysannerie --- histoire économique --- Greek literature. --- Latin literature. --- Roman literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- Greek philology