{"id":679,"date":"2024-11-08T20:05:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/?page_id=679"},"modified":"2024-11-08T20:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:05:46","slug":"libanius-of-antioch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/middle-ages\/key-players-in-the-medieval-period\/libanius-of-antioch\/","title":{"rendered":"Libanius of Antioch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">314-393 AD<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>In 336 he went to study in Athens. During the decade of the 340s he taught in Constantinople and Nicaea, and then went to Nicomedia. He developed a reputation of excellence as a public performer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 349 Libanius was asked by the emperor in Constantinople to become a chair of rhetoric there. He went to Antioch in 354 where he was appointed the city&#8217;s official sophist in 355.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Libanius wrote an autobiography, 63 speeches, and more than 1500 letters, many of which were to his current and past students. He also developed a collection of exercises in prose composition (progymnasmata) to be used in his teaching. His students, young upper class boys, would enroll with a teacher of rhetoric, such as Libanius, to study the works of classical literature and learn to write exercises (progymnasmata). The exercises would offer them a method for determining what was at issue in a given piece of text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Libanius (2008)&nbsp;<\/em><em>Libanius&#8217; Progymnasmata: Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and Rhetoric<\/em>, Malcolm Heath (ed.). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Libanius (2008).&nbsp;<em>Libanius&#8217; Progymnasmata: Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and Rhetoric,&nbsp;<\/em><em>Craig A.Gibson (Ed.). Society for Biblical Literature. Retrieved from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=kRi-If9IAOYC&amp;dq=Libanius%27+Progymnasmata&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\">http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=kRi-If9IAOYC&amp;dq=Libanius%27+Progymnasmata&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s<\/a>&nbsp;March 1, 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>314-393 AD In 336 he went to study in Athens. During the decade of the 340s he taught in Constantinople and Nicaea, and then went to Nicomedia. He developed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"parent":163,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-679","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/679\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}