The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch

Cribiore, Raffaella

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“…Ao mesmo tempo, verifica-se aquilo que os geógrafos costumam designar como conurbação, ou seja, a tendência de as grandes cidades absorverem as menores em virtude do crescimento populacional, como vemos ocorrer com Gindaro, uma cidade satélite incorporada a Antioquia em meados do século IV (LIEBESCHUETZ, 1972, p. 99). Sabemos também que Antioquia, no tempo de Libânio, atraía indivíduos das mais distintas categorias sociais, fossem eles camponeses provenientes das aldeias sírias ou estudantes oriundos das demais províncias do Oriente (SALIOU, 2000, p. 809;CRIBIORE, 2007). Disso resulta que a cidade contava, nos séculos Dossiê: Religiões no Mundo Antigo IV e V, com uma população entre 300 e 500 mil habitantes, estimativa bastante elevada para os padrões da Antiguidade.…”

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Lugares Do Sagrado Na Cidade Pós-Clássica: Libânio E a Reforma Do Plethrion De Antioquia

Silva

2018

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Na fase tardia do Império Romano, verificamos uma reconfiguração progressiva da pólis ou municipium, o que propicia a emergência daquilo que os autores têm, há alguns anos, designado como a cidade pós-clássica, modalidade particular de organização cívica que embora conservando, em muitas localidades, o antigo contorno da cidade helenística e romana, sofre, a partir doséculo IV, transformações importantes do ponto de vista econômico, administrativo, religioso e arquitetônico. Nesse artigo, temos por objetivo discutir as transformações ocorridas em Antioquia, a metrópole da província da Síria Coele, na segunda metade do século IV, em especial no que diz respeitoao aumento populacional devido à intensificação das correntes migratórias no sentido campo-cidade, o que exige das autoridades cívicas a implementação de reformas nos edifícios públicos com a finalidade de comportar a maior afluência de usuários, procedimento censurado por determinados segmentos da pólis, receosos de que as alterações no espaço urbano conduzissem à dessacralização da cidade e de seus festivais, como vemos na Oratio X, de Libânio, um manifesto contra a expansão do Plethrion pretendida pelo comes Orientis Proclo.

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Lugares Do Sagrado Na Cidade Pós-Clássica: Libânio E a Reforma Do Plethrion De Antioquia

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2018

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“…52 In addition, although ancient sources and modern scholarship are far more interested in the conversion of pagan temples to specifically Christian uses, 53 we do know that some were converted to secular uses, as well. 54 55 The Museion in Antioch also served as headquarters for the comes orientis for a period in the fourth century. 56 In 386 Libanius appeals to the emperor to convert temples threatened by destructive monks to storehouses for taxes in kind (Or.…”

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THE ALEXANDRIAN TYCHAION AND THE DATE OF PS.-NICOLAUS PROGYMNASMATA

Gibson

2009

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The purpose of this article is twofold. First, I offer evidence to corroborate C.M. Bowra's theory that the Alexandrian Tychaion was converted into a tavern in c. 391 C.E. I take his theory one step further in suggesting that the temple's divine statues must have been removed or destroyed at the same time. I place the conversion of the Alexandrian Tychaion in the context of other contemporary threats to pagan temples in general and specifically to temples of Tyche, and I argue that its conversion was part of an imperial programme intended to decommission certain high-profile pagan temples in a conspicuous, morally degrading fashion. I also offer two new interpretations of the last two certain literary references to the Tychaion, in works describing events from the late fifth and early seventh centuries. Second, I aim to use the conversion of the Tychaion to redate the progymnasmata of Ps.-Nicolaus, which include an ecphrasis of the unaltered Tychaion, to the late fourth or early fifth centuries. I identify Ps.-Nicolaus as a likely student of Aphthonius (who was in turn a student of Libanius), which would explain both his adherence to Aphthonian theory and his dependence upon Libanius' model exercises. I One of the largest collections of progymnasmata from the Late Antique and Byzantine periods is attributed to the author now conventionally known as Ps.-Nicolaus, 1 to distinguish him from Nicolaus of Myra, the fifth-century author of a surviving progymnasmata treatise. 2 In addition to the 111 exercises edited by C. Walz (Rh. Gr.

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“…26 As Cribiore shows, it is possible to speak of a 'circle of alumni' around Libanius and his school and Libanius himself describes 'chains' of students connected by their study under him. 27 One ex-pupil to whom Libanius wrote on a regular basis was Andronicus 3, a young man who had studied with Libanius in Constantinople, and who was probably the nephew of Strategius Musonianus, Praetorian Prefect of the east in 354 -58. Andronicus received thirty-nine letters from Libanius between 355 and 365.…”

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Libanius' Social Networks: Understanding the Social Structure of the Later Roman Empire

Sandwell¹

2007

Mediterranean Historical Review

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Our understanding of the later Roman empire is often posed in terms of an opposition between the imperial centre and the periphery of Greek cities, between the imperial bureaucracy and civic elites. These opposed positions are seen as bounded aggregates, discrete categories and tightly bound groups that make up the social structure of the Roman empire. Network theory, however, provides us with an alternative approach for understanding social relations, one in which individual ties and relationships are the most important factor. This paper explores the social networks of the orator Libanius to show that the 'bounded aggregates' of imperial centre and Greek civic elite may not have been as central as we often think they were to the later Roman empire.

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The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch

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Lugares Do Sagrado Na Cidade Pós-Clássica: Libânio E a Reforma Do Plethrion De Antioquia

Lugares Do Sagrado Na Cidade Pós-Clássica: Libânio E a Reforma Do Plethrion De Antioquia

THE ALEXANDRIAN TYCHAION AND THE DATE OF PS.-NICOLAUS PROGYMNASMATA

Libanius' Social Networks: Understanding the Social Structure of the Later Roman Empire

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