A pagan sophist and Christian bishops: correspondence between Libanius and Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium, and Optimus, Bishop of Antioch in Pisidia. Translation and Comments

Abstract

This work presents a translation of two letters from Libanius addressed to his students, who later became bishops.

Keywords

• late antiquity
• late roman empire
• epistolography
• rhetoric
• education
• episcopate
• christianity
• paganism
• libanius