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7, p.390. Date Oration Translation 349 AD Or. 121-161 (volume I alone appeared in See, for example, R. Scholl, Historische Beiträge zu den julianischen Reden des Libanios (Stuttgart, Franz Steiner [1994|), p. 99. Works. 364 : see Liebeschuetz, Antioch, p. 1 . The works of Libanius are valuable as a historical source for the changing world of the later 4th century. 19-839, 1113-1542 - 358 Or. translated many of Libanius’ orations and letters, even observing the city of Antioch through Libanius’ eyes, to Cribiore, who has written an important book on Libanius’ school of rhetoric in Antioch.2 Norman’s English translation of Or. 59: Panegyric on Constantius and Constans Malosse (2003), Fatouros (2002), Dodgeon (1996) 352 c. Hypotheses of the orations of Demosthenes Gibson (2003) online 355-65 Letters, nos. This book is a collection of twelve important but little-read orations of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, providing an English translation for each with a thorough introduction and copious notes. Before his exile, Libanius was a friend of the emperor Julian, with whom some correspondence survives, and in whose memory he wrote a series of orations; they were composed between 362 and 365. Edited with introduction, translation and notes.

Between city and school : selected orations of Libanius. Julian (Latin: Flavius Claudius Julianus; 331 – 26 June 363) was Roman emperor from 361 to 363, as well as a notable philosopher and author in Greek. Expressed above all in his Orations 17 and 18. A. F Norman, Libanius' autobiography (Oration 1) : the Greek text. One reason might have been the less influential position of Libanius’s family in Antioch after ca. This book is a collection of twelve important but little-read orations of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, providing an English translation for each with a thorough introduction and copious notes.

1 This is the 3rd of the 2nd book of the letters of Libanius, collected in Greek by Francisco Zambicari of Bologna and published in his Latin translation only by John Somerfeld at Cracow, 1504. It is also inserted by Fabricius in his Bibliotheca Graeca , vol. Oxford University Press : London, 1965. Libanius, "On the Silence of Socrates" Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies; Fall 1960; 3, 4; ProQuest pg.

His rejection of Christianity, and his promotion of Neoplatonic Hellenism in its place, caused him to be remembered as Julian the Apostate by the Catholic Church.. A member of the Constantinian dynasty, Julian was orphaned as a child. 30 has been used extensively in the first chapter present translation and commentary will, it is hoped, not only aid scholars and students in the reading of a lengthy and sometimes difficult ... orations and declamations of Libanius, Libanii Sophistae orationes et declamationes (Altenburg, 1784), pp.