PREFACE ix A NOTE ON REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS xi INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE: Libanius and Rhetoric in Antioch 13 CHAPTER TWO: Schools and Sophists in the Roman East 42 CHAPTER THREE: The Network 83 CHAPTER FOUR: Admission and Evaluation 111 CHAPTER FIVE: Teaching the Logoi 137 CHAPTER SIX: The Long and Short Paths to Rhetoric 174 CHAPTER SEVEN: After Rhetoric 197 CONCLUSION: Words and Silence 229 APPENDIX ONE: Dossiers of Students 233 APPENDIX TWO: Length of Students' Attendance 323 APPENDIX THREE: Concordance of Letters in Appendix One Translated INTO ENGLISH 329 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 331 INDEX LOCORUM 347 GENERAL INDEX 355

The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch

Introduction: Pantomime: a lost chord of ancient culture I. THE PANTOMIME DANCER AND HIS WORLD 1. Inside the mask: pantomime from the performers' perspective 2. The symbolism of costume in ancient pantomime 3. Pantomime performance and figured scenes on Roman sarcophagi 4. Pantomime actresses in Latin inscriptions 5. 'Mime' and 'pantomime': some problematic texts II. PANTOMIME LIBRETTI 6. The pantomime dancer and his libretto 7. Roman pantomime libretti and their Greek themes: the role of Augustus in the Romanization of the Greek classics 8. Virgil on the popular stage 9. 'et mea sunt populo saltata poemata saepe' (Tristia 2.519): Ovid and the pantomime 10. Seneca and pantomime 11. The influence of pantomime on Seneca's tragedies 12. Is the 'Barcelona Alcestis' a Latin pantomime libretto? III. THE IDEA OF THE PANTOMIME DANCER 13. Was pantomime 'good to think with' in the ancient world? 14. Lucian, rhetoric, and the protreptic genre 15. The metamorphosis of pantomime: Apuleius' Judgement of Paris (Met. 10.30-34) 16. Ancient pantomime and the rise of ballet Appendix: Jacob of Sarugh's Syriac Homilies on the theatre: an English translation

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New Directions in Ancient Pantomime

Violence in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Introduction 1. Canonizing Menander in Athens, Alexandria and Rome 2. Menander in public theatres 3. Menander at dinner parties 4. Menander in schools Conclusion: Menander, survival and loss.

Menander in Antiquity: The Contexts of Reception

This chapter discusses the total revolution in the nature of the imperial senatorial order. It considers the institutional changes put in place in the course of the century, the new career patterns which resulted, and the evolving political role of senators, both in central, imperial politics and in the governing of localities. The most obvious institutional innovation of the fourth century was the creation of the senate of Constantinople. The new body did not spring fully formed from the head of the emperor Constantine, however, having at least three marked phases of development. The link between the bureaucracy and the senate was fully institutionalized in the reign of Valentinian I and Valens. The fundamental changes in the nature of the senatorial order naturally affected the type of careers being followed by its members. Individual senators and institutional bodies dominated by senators were involved in a wide variety of ways in imperial politics: the formulation of policy and regimes.

Senators and Senates

Editors Note General Introduction Select Bibliogrpahy Abbreviations Part I: IN THE REIGN OF CONSTANTIUS Oration 11: The Antiochikos: In Praise of Antioch Introduction Text and Notes Oration 31: To the Antiochenes for the Teachers Introduction Text and Notes Part II: IN THE REIGN OF THEODOSIUS Oration 62: Against the Critics of his Educational system Introduction Text and Notes Oration 43: On the Agreements Introduction Text and Notes Oration 36: On the Magical Practices Introduction Text and Notes Oration 34: Against the Slanders of the Pedagogue Introduction Text and Notes Oration 42: For Thalassius Introduction Text and Notes Oration 58: To his students on the carpeting Introduction Text and Notes: Oration 3: To his students about his speech Introduction Text and Notes Index of persons and places in the text Map of Antioch

Antioch as a centre of Hellenic culture as observed by Libanius

Libanius: Autobiography and Selected Letters

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Glossary A Note on Documentation General Introduction The Life of Libanius Late Roman Government in the Greek East Preservation and Survival of Libanius' Letters SELECTED LETTERS I. For Family Members (Bl-22) II. To Emperors and Court Officials (B23-51) Ill. To Prefects, Proconsuls and Vicarii (B52-85) IV. To Provincial Governors (B86-143) V. To Men of Letters and Curiales (B144-183) Appendix 1: Libanius' Principal Correspondents (355-65) Appendix 2: Index of Libanius' Letters Translated into English Bibliography Index Map: Principal Destinations of Libanius' Letters AD 354-365

Selected letters of Libanius : from the age of Constantius and Julian

Die Briefe des Libanius

Libanius (314 393 CE), who was one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism, has much to tell us about the tumultuous world of the fourth century CE. His works include Orations, the first of which is an autobiography, and Letters.

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