Autobiography and selected letters
- Titel:
- Autobiography and selected letters
- Andere titel:
- Works. Selections. English & Greek. 1992
- Jaar:
- 1992
- URL:
- http://limo.libis.be/GSG:PHYS_ITEMS:32LIBIS_ALMA_DS71176335400001471
- Onderwerp:
- Libanius Translations into English
Sophists (Greek philosophy) Correspondence
Orators Correspondence
Sophists (Greek philosophy) Biography
Orators Biography
Speeches - Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 1992
- Plaatsnummer:
- GBSG (Bisschoppelijk Seminarie)
- ISBN:
- 0674995279
9780674995277
0674995287
9780674995284 - Paginering:
- 2 volumes 17 cm.
- Reeks:
- The Loeb classical library ; 478-479
Libanius 1-2 - Samenvatting:
- A professing pagan in an aggressively Christian empire, a friend of the emperor Julian and acquaintance of St. Basil, a potent spokesman for private and political causes -- Libanius can tell us much more about the tumultuous world of the fourth century. Born in Antioch to a wealthy family steeped in the culture and religious traditions of Hellenism, Libanius rose to fame as a teacher of the classics in a period of rapid social change. In his lifetime Libanius was an acknowledged master of the art of letter writing. Today his letters -- about 1550 of which survive -- offer an enthralling self-portrait of this combative pagan publicist and a vivid picture of the culture and political intrigues of the eastern empire. A.F. Norman selects one eighth of the extant letters, which come from two periods in Libanius' life, AD 355-365 and 388-393 -- letters written to Julian, churchmen, civil officials, scholars, and his many influential friends. The letters are complemented, in this two-volume edition, by Libanius' Autobiography (Oration I), a revealing narrative that begins as a scholar's account and ends as an old man's private journal., v. 1. Autobiography ; Selected letters. 1-50 -- v. 2. Selected letters. 51-193.
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