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Selected letters of Libanius from the age of Constantius and Julian
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ISBN: 0853235090 1789628571 Year: 2004 Volume: 41 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool university press,


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The dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf : a dual-language edition from Latin and Middle English printed editions
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ISBN: 9781580441803 1580441807 Year: 2012 Publisher: Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications,


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The letters of Libanius from the age of Theodosius
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ISBN: 1802076832 9781802076837 Year: 2023 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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Libanius of Antioch (AD 314-93), teacher, rhetorician and eloquent exponent of Greek paideia, was one of the most prolific letter writers of late antiquity with more than 1500 surviving letters from an even greater total. This volume contains the first English-language translation of all the letters written between 388 and 393, which provide insights both into his professional and personal circumstances and the changes taking place in the political, religious and social environment of the late fourth century. The letters, while fulfilling many of the usual functions of late antique correspondence as vehicles in creating or maintaining friendship networks, promoting relationships with men in power, supporting rhetoric and Hellenic learning and seeking favours for his friends, students, and protégés, also reveal Libanius' reaction to his circumstances at the end of his life -- his waning influence as a teacher, the hostility directed towards him by factions in Antioch and in Constantinople, the loss of friends and loved ones, in particular his son, and his ill health and impending mortality. -- from the back cover

Letter on the conversion of the Jews
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ISBN: 0198267649 9780198267645 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon,

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