Libanius

A professor of Greek rhetoric frequent letter writer and influential social figure Libanius (AD 314393) 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.