Libanius the Sophist : Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century /
Libanius of Antioch was a rhetorician of rare skill and eloquence. So renowned was he in the fourth century that his school of rhetoric in Roman Syria became among the most prestigious in the Eastern Empire. In this book, Raffaella Cribiore draws on her unique knowledge of the entire body of Libaniu...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Rhetoric and the distortion of reality
- A rhetor and his audience : the role of invective
- A man and his gods
- God and the gods
- Conclusion : Julian's school edict again.