Libanius the SophistLibanius 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 among the most prestigious in the Eastern Empire. In this book Raffaella Cribiore draws on her unique knowledge of the entire body of Libanius's vast literary outputincluding 64 orations, 1,544 letters, and exercises for his studentsto offer the fullest intellectual portrait yet of this