Libanius: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Glanville Downey, A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab Conquest (1961, reprinted 1974); J.H.W.G. Liebeschütz, Antioch: City and Imperial Administration in the Later Roman Empire (1972, reissued 2000); George A. Kennedy, A New History of Classical Rhetoric (1994); Raffaella Cribiore, The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch (2007); Isabella Sandwell, Religious Identity in Late Antiquity: Greeks, Jews, and Christians in Antioch (2007).

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Anniversary information added. Jan 01, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 01, 2026
First paragraph modernization. Mar 21, 2024
Invalidated site: Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Biography of Libanius. Jan 03, 2020
Add new Web site: Dictionary of African Christian Biography - Biography of Libanius. Aug 11, 2010
Add new Web site: Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Biography of Libanius. Aug 11, 2010
Bibliography revised. Mar 07, 2008
Article revised and updated. Mar 07, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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