A professing pagan in an aggressively Christian empire, a friend of
the emperor Julian and acquaintance of St. Basil, a potent
spokesman for private and political causes--Libanius can tell us
much about the tumultuous world of the fourth century.
Born in Antioch to a wealthy family steeped in the culture and
religious traditions of Hellenism, Libanius rose to fame as a
teacher of the classics in a period of rapid social change. In his
lifetime Libanius was an acknowledged master of the art of letter
writing. Today his letters--about 1550 of which survive--offer an
enthralling self-portrait of this combative pagan publicist and a
vivid picture of the culture and political intrigues of the eastern
empire. A. F. Norman selects one eighth of the extant letters,
which come from two periods in Libanius's life, 355-365 and 388-393
CE, letters written to Julian, churchmen, civil officials,
scholars, and his many influential friends. The "Letters" are
complemented, in this two-volume edition, by Libanius's
"Autobiography" ("Oration" 1), a revealing narrative that begins as
a scholar's account and ends as an old man's private journal.
Also available in the Loeb Classical Library is a two-volume
edition of Libanius's "Orations."
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