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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Libanius
• Author: Lieve van Hoof
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 404
• EAN: 9781107013773
• ISBN: 1107013771
• ID: 04767227
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 708 g
• Dimensions: 159 × 230 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. September 2014

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