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1 online resource (360 pages) : map |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-346) and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Libanius.
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Libanius. |
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Libanius. |
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Philosophy -- Study and teaching -- Turkey -- Antioch -- History.
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Philosophy -- Study and teaching. |
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Turkey -- Antioch. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cribiore, Raffaella. School of Libanius in late antique Antioch. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2006013514 |
| ISBN |
9781400827671 (electronic book) |
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1400827671 (electronic book) |
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9780691128245 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0691128243 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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