Raffaella Cribiore: 4 books

Book cover of Libanius the Sophist

Libanius the Sophist

Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century

by Raffaella Cribiore
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

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 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...
Book cover of The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch
by Raffaella Cribiore
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009

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 Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent of pagan religion and a friend of the emperor Julian, but also taught leaders of the early Christian...
Book cover of An Oasis City
by Roger S. Bagnall, Nicola Aravecchia, Raffaella Cribiore
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

Scattered through the vast expanse of stone and sand that makes up Egypt’s Western Desert are several oases. These islands of green in the midst of the Sahara owe their existence to springs and wells drawing on ancient aquifers. In antiquity, as today, they supported agricultural communities, going...
Book cover of Amheida III

Amheida III

Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 2

by Roger S. Bagnall, Rodney Ast, Clementina Caputo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

This archaeological report provides a comprehensive study of the excavations carried out at Amheida House B2 in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis between 2005 and 2007, followed by three study seasons between 2008 and 2010. The excavations at Amheida in Egypt's western desert, begun in 2001 under the aegis of...
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