By Antonio Gramsci
Lettere dal Carcere
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In collaboration with David Moncur, he is currently preparing a translation of the later corpus of Libanius’ letters from the years 388–393, also to appear in Translated Texts for Historians. Bernadette Cabouret is Professor of Roman History at the University Jean Moulin – Lyon 3 in France. She is a member of the research group Histoires et Sources des Mondes Antiques of the Maison de l’Orient Méditerranéen. After a PhD on Antioch’s suburb Daphne and a research project on late antique Syrian elites, she published a French translation of ninety-eight Libanian letters under the title Lettres aux Hommes de son Temps (2000).
His interest in Libanius focuses on Libanius’ relations with his pupils and his predominantly Christian environment. In 2011, he was the main contributor to a new edition with introduction, German translation, notes and interpretative essays, of Libanius’ Oration 30 For the Temples entitled Für Religionsfreiheit, Recht und Toleranz and in 2012, he published a short introductory monograph on Libanius under the title Libanios: Zeuge einer schwindenden Welt. Robert J. Penella is Professor of Classics at Fordham University, New York.
After a slight improvement in 367/8, Libanius is finally cured by Asclepius at the end of his fifty-seventh year, in 371. As a result, Libanius is fully fit again by the time Valens comes to Antioch (November 371) and makes his entrance into the Life (τοῦ βασιλέως ἥκοντος, §144). Although Libanius’ panegyric of the emperor is interrupted by opponents of paideia, Libanius now becomes known to the emperor (οὐκ ἐν ἀγνοουμένοις ἐγώ, §144). The next paragraph capitalizes on this acquaintance between the sophist and the emperor: Fate also helped to enact a law in favour of illegitimate offspring.