Libanius

Libanius in Wikipedia

Libanius (Greek: Λιβάνιος, Libanios; ca. 314-ca. 394) was a Greek-speaking teacher of rhetoric of the Sophist school. During the rise of Christian hegemony in the later Roman Empire, he remained unconverted and regarded himself as a Hellene in religious matters. He was born into a once-influential, deeply cultured family of Antioch that had recent...

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Libanius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Λιβάνιος). A Greek rhetorician of Antioch in Syria, born A.D. 314. His education was begun in his native city and completed at Athens, where he became a public teacher at the early age of twenty-five. Called from Athens to Constantinople in 340, he met with extraordinary success; at the same time he excited the envy of his rivals, whose slanders l...

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