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This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Ro
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Libanius of Antioch was a rhetorician of rare skill and eloquence. So renowned was he in the fourth century that his school of rhetoric in Roman Syria became am
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This collection of papers brings together a broad range of new research and new material on Antioch in the late Roman period (the 2nd to the 7th centuries AD),
Social Control in Late Antiquity
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Explores how in late antiquity women, slaves, and children claimed agency in small-scale communities despite intimidation by the powerful.
Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch
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Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History is a study of the authority of the holy man and its limits in times of crisis.