The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 2, 2007
Place of publication: Princeton, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780691128245
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Rhetoric; History; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; History: World; Ancient Rome; Ancient - Rome; Linguistics; Archaeology and Ancient History; Classics; History / Ancient / Rome; Antioch; Libanius; Philosophy; Study and teaching; Turkey
First sentence: The sophist Libanius, who was an exponent of the revival of Greek literature that started with the Second Sophistic, taught in Antioch in Syria in the fourth century C.E.
Notes: Princeton and Oxford
Table of contents: label: CONTENTS
pagenum: 8; label: PREFACE
pagenum: 10; label: A NOTE ON REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS
pagenum: 12; label: INTRODUCTION
pagenum: 16; label: CHAPTER ONE
title: Libanius and Rhetoric in Antioch
pagenum: 28; label: CHAPTER TWO
title: Schools and Sophists in the Roman East
pagenum: 57; label: CHAPTER THREE
title: The Network
pagenum: 98; label: CHAPTER FOUR
title: Admission and Evaluation
pagenum: 126; label: CHAPTER FIVE
title: Teaching the Logoi
pagenum: 152; label: CHAPTER SIX
title: The Long and Short Paths to Rhetoric
pagenum: 189; label: CHAPTER SEVEN
title: After Rhetoric
pagenum: 212; label: CONCLUSION
title: Words and Silence
pagenum: 244; label: APPENDIX ONE
title: Dossiers of Students
pagenum: 248; label: APPENDIX TWO
title: Length of Students' Attendance
pagenum: 338; label: APPENDIX THREE
title: Concordance of Letters in Appendix One Translated into English
pagenum: 344; label: SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
title: 346; label: INDEX LOCORUM
pagenum: 362; label: GENERAL INDEX
pagenum: 370