By Dr Lieve Van Hoof
A professor of Greek rhetoric, widespread letter author and influential social determine, Libanius (AD 314-393) is a key writer for anyone attracted to past due Antiquity, historical rhetoric, old epistolography and historic biography. however, he continues to be understudied since it is this sort of daunting job to entry his huge and simply partly translated oeuvre. This quantity, that is the 1st finished learn of Libanius, deals a serious creation to the fellow, his texts, their context and reception. transparent displays of the orations, progymnasmata, declamations and letters free up the corpus, and a survey of all on hand translations is supplied. even as, the quantity explores new interpretative ways of the texts from numerous angles. Written by means of a workforce of confirmed in addition to upcoming specialists within the box, it considerably reassesses works comparable to the Autobiography, the Julianic speeches and letters, and Oration 30 For the Temples.
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Indeed, Bernard Schouler has noted that the Autobiography ‘n’est pas témoignage vécu, journal, mémoires, réflexions à bâtons rompus. Le moi ne s’y exprime jamais dans sa spontanéité. 16 Taking this not as the end point but instead as the starting point of analysis, the following pages read Libanius’ Life as a narrative text against the background of his life as well as against competing narratives of that life, especially Eunapius’ Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists. Doing so will help us to see how Libanius’ Life functions as a literary text, what the relationship is between his Life and his life, and what all this means for our understanding of the author and his life.
01–dc23 2014012736 ISBN 978-1-107-01377-3 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. To Pierre-Louis Malosse († 2013) Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή. Contents List of tables Notes on contributors Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Libanius at the marginsLieve Van Hoof Part I Reading Libanius 1 Libanius’ Life and lifeLieve Van Hoof 2 The historical context: the rhetoric of suffering in Libanius’ Monodies, Letters and AutobiographyEdward Watts 3 The rhetorical context: traditions and opportunitiesRaffaella Cribiore Part II Libanius’ texts: rhetoric, self-presentation and reception 4 Libanius’ OrationsPierre-Louis Malosse †; translated by Lieve Van Hoof 5 Libanius’ DeclamationsRobert J.
7 As this chapter will show, however, the relationship between Libanius’ life and his Life is not simply mimetic – a fact taken for granted in studies on most other (auto)biographies, but thus far not explored for Libanius. 10 Judging by the opening passage of his Life, Libanius too seems to have counted with expectations of bias: Some people labour under a misapprehension in the opinions they entertain about my fortune. There are some who, as a result of this applause which greets my oratory, assert that I am the happiest of men; there are, on the other hand, those who, considering my incessant perils and pains, would have it that I am the wretchedest man alive.