By Dr Lieve Van Hoof
A professor of Greek rhetoric, common letter author and influential social determine, Libanius (AD 314-393) is a key writer for anyone attracted to overdue Antiquity, historical rhetoric, historic epistolography and old biography. however, he is still understudied since it is one of these daunting activity to entry his huge and simply in part translated oeuvre. This quantity, that is the 1st accomplished learn of Libanius, bargains a serious creation to the guy, his texts, their context and reception. transparent displays of the orations, progymnasmata, declamations and letters free up the corpus, and a survey of all to be had translations is supplied. while, the quantity explores new interpretative techniques of the texts from numerous angles. Written through a group of confirmed in addition to upcoming specialists within the box, it considerably reassesses works reminiscent of the Autobiography, the Julianic speeches and letters, and Oration 30 For the Temples.
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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.