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The school of Libanius in late antique Antioch
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ISBN: 9780691128245 0691128243 9786612158117 1282158112 1400827671 9781400827671 0691171351 Year: 2007 Publisher: Princeton: Princeton university press,

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This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent of pagan religion and a friend of the emperor Julian, but also taught leaders of the early Christian church like St. John Chrysostom and St. Basil the Great. Raffaella Cribiore examines Libanius's training and personality, showing him to be a vibrant educator, though somewhat gloomy and anxious by nature. She traces how he cultivated a wide network of friends and former pupils and courted powerful officials to recruit top students. Cribiore describes his school in Antioch--how students applied, how they were evaluated and trained, and how Libanius reported progress to their families. She details the professional opportunities that a thorough training in rhetoric opened up for young men of the day. Also included here are translations of 200 of Libanius's most important letters on education, almost none of which have appeared in English before. Cribiore casts into striking relief the importance of rhetoric in late antiquity and its influence not only on pagan intellectuals but also on prominent Christian figures. She gives a balanced view of Libanius and his circle against the far-flung panorama of the Greek East.


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Libanius the sophist
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ISBN: 0801469082 0801452074 1322523096 9780801452079 0801469074 9780801469084 9780801469077 Year: 2013 Publisher: Ithaca

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Libanius of Antioch was a rhetorician of rare skill and eloquence. So renowned was he in the fourth century that his school of rhetoric in Roman Syria became among the most prestigious in the Eastern Empire. In this book, Raffaella Cribiore draws on her unique knowledge of the entire body of Libanius's vast literary output-including 64 orations, 1,544 letters, and exercises for his students-to offer the fullest intellectual portrait yet of this remarkable figure whom John Chrystostom called "the sophist of the city."Libanius (314-ca. 393) lived at a time when Christianity was celebrating its triumph but paganism tried to resist. Although himself a pagan, Libanius cultivated friendships within Antioch's Christian community and taught leaders of the Church including Chrysostom and Basil of Caesarea. Cribiore calls him a "gray pagan" who did not share the fanaticism of the Emperor Julian. Cribiore considers the role that a major intellectual of Libanius's caliber played in this religiously diverse society and culture. When he wrote a letter or delivered an oration, who was he addressing and what did he hope to accomplish? One thing that stands out in Libanius's speeches is the startling amount of invective against his enemies. How common was character assassination of this sort? What was the subtext to these speeches and how would they have been received? Adapted from the Townsend Lectures that Cribiore delivered at Cornell University in 2010, this book brilliantly restores Libanius to his rightful place in the rich and culturally complex world of Late Antiquity.

Gymnastics of the mind : Greek education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt / Raffaella Cribiore
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ISBN: 0691122520 0691002649 9780691002644 1306136660 140084441X Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press,

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"This book is at once a thorough study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. It describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned, and what the curriculum comprised. Raffaella Cribiore draws on over 400 papyri, ostraca (shards of pottery or slices of limestone), and tablets that feature everything from exercises involving letters of the alphabet through rhetorical compositions that represented the work of advanced students. The exceptional wealth of surviving source material renders Egypt an ideal space of reference. The book makes excursions beyond Egypt as well, particularly in the Greek East, by examining the letters of the Antiochene Libanius that are concerned with education." "Gymnastics of the Mind will be an indispensable resource to students and scholars of the ancient world and of the history of education."--BOOK JACKET.


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Gymnastics of the Mind
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ISBN: 9781400844418 Year: 2005 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Listening to the philosophers : notes on notes
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ISBN: 9781501774768 Year: 2024 Publisher: Ithaca, New York ; London: Cornell University Press,

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Listening to the Philosophers : Notes on Notes
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Year: 2024 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press

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The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch
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ISBN: 9781400827671 9780691128245 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Gymnastics of the Mind : Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
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ISBN: 9781400844418 9780691122526 Year: 2005 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Between city and school : selected orations of Libanius
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ISBN: 9781781382523 9781781382530 1781382530 Year: 2015 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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