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314–393 · Greek rhetorician (4th century AD)
Also known as: Libanios, Libanius of Antioch, Libanius the Sophist, Либаний, ليبانيوس, リバニウス
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- Autobiography and selected letters (1992)
- Speeches (1979)
- Progymnasmata (2008)
- Selected works (1969)
- Antioch as a centre of Hellenic culture as observed by Libanius (2000)