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Libanius: A Critical Introduction

By Dr Lieve Van Hoof

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
1107013771, 9781107013773
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1228071 bytes)
Pages
404\0
Topic
Literature
Time added
2016-07-27 14:25:27
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Description

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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