Libanius the Sophist - Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century

Raffaella Cribiore is Professor of Classics at New York University. She is the author of The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch, Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and Writing, Teachers and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt and coauthor of Women¿s Letters from Ancient Egypt 300 BC¿AD 800.

Summary

Raffaella Cribiore draws on her unique knowledge of the entire body of Libanius’s vast literary output to offer the fullest intellectual portrait yet of this remarkable thinker.

Product details

• Authors: Raffaella Cribiore
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2013
• EAN: 9780801452079
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-5207-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Townsend Lectures; Cornell Studies in Classical Philology; Townsend Lectures Series/Cornell Studies in Classical Philology; Cornell Studies in Classical P; Townsend Lectures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity