Libanius
Greek rhetorician (4th century AD)
- Lived
- 314–393
- Country
- Ancient Rome
Updated September 2026
About Libanius
Libanius was a teacher of rhetoric of the Sophist school in the Eastern Roman Empire. His prolific writings make him one of the best documented teachers of higher education in the ancient world and a critical source of history of the Greek East during the 4th century AD. During the rise of Christian hegemony in the later Roman Empire, he remained unconverted and in religious matters was a pagan Hellene.
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