The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch /
This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent of pagan religion and a friend of the emperor Julian, but also taught leaders of the early Christian...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Libanius and rhetoric in Antioch
- Schools and Sophists in the Roman East
- The network
- Admission and evaluation
- Teaching the logoi
- The long and the short paths to rhetoric
- After rhetoric
- Conclusion : words and silence
- Appendix 1 : the dossiers of students
- Appendix 2 : length of students' attendance.