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

Preface 1. Embassies and political communication in the post-imperial world 2. The provincial view of Hydatius 3. The hero as envoy: Sidonium Appollinaris's Panegyric on Avitus 4. The saint as envoy: fifth and sixth century Latin bishops' Lives 5. Cassiodorus and Senarius 6. Negotium Agendum Conclusion Appendices Bibliography.

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Envoys and political communication in the late antique West, 411-533

Greek artefacts, craftsmen and artists had penetrated Rome since regal days; from the second century BC this trickle had become a continuing and influential flood, contributing together with Italic and Etruscan architecture and art, and the developing central Italian and Roman concrete architecture, to the rich tapestry of the art of the capital. Vespasian (69-79), founder of the Flavian dynasty, showed an astute pragmatism in his handling of architecture and art. In the provinces the architectural and art forms characteristic of the Flavian era continued to flourish. Dynamism returned to imperial commissions with the Romano-Spanish Trajan. The age of Hadrian (117-38) proved to be extraordinary, largely because of the extent to which he was able to impress upon it his own many-sided personality: ruler, philhellene, architect, dilettante, poet, traveller and romantic. The rich artistic harvest of the Flavian to the Antonine ages was not just an imperial, but a corporate achievement, one which offered a worthy inheritance to following generations.

Art and architecture

Nonostante Ravenna sia stata a lungo considerata come la capitale degli imperatori tardo-romani e dei loro successori in Occidente, Odoacre e i sovrani ostrogoti, l'evidenza disponibile indica che la principale residenza imperiale del quinto secolo era invece a Roma. L'adozione di Ravenna come residenza imperiale e stata generalmente attribuita al fatto che la citta, grazie alle sue paludi, era facilmente difendibile dagli attacchi, ed e stata anche imputata alia debolezza militare degli ultimi imperatori. In questo articolo viene raccolta l'evidenza relativa alle residenze degli imperatori d'Occidente tra il 401 e il 476; essa dimostra che la corte imperiale occidentale occupo Roma in periodi molto significativi, quali quelli compresi tra il 401 e il 408 e il 440 e il 449, e che Roma fu la residenza principale della corte nell'ultimo periodo di dominazione imperiale dell'Occidente, tra il 450 e il 476. Gli ultimi anni d'impero di Valentiniano III e quello di Antemio in particolare indicano il ruolo di Roma come residenza imperiale. Sia le fonti contemporanee che quelle del sesto secolo confermano l'importanza di Roma, mentre indicano scarsi riferimenti alle presunte qualita difensive di Ravenna. La presenza degli imperatori a Roma mette in evidenza la centralita dell'aristocrazia senatoriale di Roma nelle politiche occidentali del quinto secolo.

Rome, Ravenna and the last western emperors

Les protectores diuini lateris Augusti, soldats de haut rang attestes dans l’armee romaine entre le IIIe siecle et le VIe siecle, ont ete consideres tour a tour par les historiens comme des gardes du corps imperiaux, des officiers d’etat-major, ou les successeurs des centurions. Mais ces interpretations soulevent bien des contradictions que cette etude d’histoire militaire et sociale, appuyee sur un corpus prosopographique, vise a resoudre. Les evolutions du recrutement, des carrieres et des fonctions des protectores sont revelatrices des recompositions du commandement de l’armee romaine tardive. L’analyse ouvre egalement une fenetre sur l’environnement social et culturel de ces soldats privilegies, amenes a frequenter tant les champs de bataille que la cour imperiale. Enfin, en placant au centre de la reflexion la relation de ces soldats avec l’empereur, a la fois chef de l’armee et garant de l’ordre social et symbolique du monde de l’Antiquite tardive, on comprend comment les protectores s’inscrivaient, aux yeux des Romains, au sein d’un ordre terrestre des dignites refletant la hierarchie celeste.

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Des soldats de l'armée romaine tardive : les protectores (IIIe-VIe siècles ap. J.-C.)

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Die Briefe des Libanius