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• Title:[Correspondence. Selections. English]
  The letters of Libanius from the age of Theodosius / translated with commentary by Scott Bradbury and David Moncur.
  
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• Author/Creator:Libanius, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Bradbury, Scott, translator, writer of added commentary.
  Moncur, David, translator, writer of added commentary.
  
• Published/Created:Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2023.
  ©2023
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PA4227 .E6 2023
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Libanius--Correspondence.
  Libanius--Translations into English.
  Rhetoricians--Turkey--Antioch--Correspondence.
  
• Genre/Form:Personal correspondence.
  
• Description:xvi, 457 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Series:Translated texts for historians ; v. 82.
  
• Summary:"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."-- Page 4 of cover.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-447) and index.
  Translated from the Ancient Greek.
  
• ISBN:1802076832 (hardcover)
  9781802076837 (hardcover)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Brief Life of Libanius
  II. Libanius' Letters
  III. Dynastic Background to Theodosius' Reign
  IV. Libanius and the Imperial Government after Julian
  V. Panegyric and Invective
  VI. Riot of the Statues in 387
  VII. Accusations of 387
  88: Thrasydaeus
  VIII. Accusations of 387
  88: The Anonymous Comes and the Old Informer
  IX. Accusations of 387
  88: Romulus and the Charge of Illegal Divination
  X. Antioch's Embassies of 388
  XI. Attempt to Rescind the Curial Immunity of Eusebius the Sophist
  XII. Failed Attempt of Thalassius to Enter the Senate
  XIII. Relations Between Libanius and Proculus
  XIV. Failed Attempt of Cimon to Enter the Senate
  XV. Emergence of Libanius' Young Kinsman, Aristaenetus
  XVI. Old Age, Ill Health and Grief
  XVII. Later Corpus in the Manuscripts
  Letters of Libanius from the Age of Theodosius (840
  1112).