Concept

Libanius

Overview

Libanius (Ancient Greek: Λιβάνιος, romanized: Libanios; c. 314–392 or 393) was a teacher of rhetoric of the Sophist school in the Eastern Roman Empire. His prolific writings make him one of the best documented teachers of higher education in the ancient world and a critical source of history of the Greek East during the 4th century AD. During the rise of Christian hegemony in the later Roman Empire, he remained unconverted and in religious matters was a pagan Hellene.

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Philosophers who discussed Libanius

• Themistius

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• Loeb Classical Library
• Cambridge University Press
• Hellenistic religion

Place in the tradition

Part of Sophist.

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