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TranslatedTextsforHistorians Thisseriesisdesignedtomeettheneedsofstudentsofancientandmedi- eval history and others who wish to broaden their study by reading sourcematerial,butwhoseknowledgeofLatinorGreekisnotsu⁄cient to allow them todo so inthe original language.Many important Late ImperialandDarkAgetextsarecurrentlyunavailableintranslationand itishopedthatTTHwillhelpto¢llthisgapandtocomplementthesec- ondaryliteratureinEnglishwhichalreadyexists.Theseriesrelatesprinci- pally to the period 300^800 AD and includes Late Imperial, Greek, ByzantineandSyriactextsaswellassourcebooksillustratingaparticular period or theme.Eachvolume is a self-contained scholarly translation withanintroductoryessayonthetextanditsauthorandnotesonthetext indicatingmajorproblemsofinterpretation,includingtextualdi⁄culties. EditorialCommittee SebastianBrock,OrientalInstitute,UniversityofOxford AverilCameron,KebleCollege,Oxford HenryChadwick,Oxford JohnDavies,UniversityofLiverpool CarlottaDionisotti,King’sCollege,London PeterHeather,UniversityCollege,London MarkHumphries,NationalUniversityofIreland,Maynooth WilliamE.Klingshirn,TheCatholicUniversityofAmerica MichaelLapidge,ClareCollege,Cambridge RobertMarkus,UniversityofNottingham JohnMatthews,YaleUniversity ClaudiaRapp,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles RaymondVanDam,UniversityofMichigan MichaelWhitby,UniversityofWarwick IanWood,UniversityofLeeds GeneralEditors GillianClark,UniversityofBristol MaryWhitby,UniversityofLiverpool Frontcover:the¢gureofMegalopsychiafromamosaicintheYaktovillaatDaphne,near Antioch,cf.Libanius,Or.11.138withnote.FromD.Levi,AntiochMosaicPavements, Princeton1947. A full list of published titles in the Translated Texts for Historians series is available on request. The most recently publishedareshownbelow. VenantiusFortunatus:PersonalandPoliticalPoems TranslatedwithnotesandintroductionbyJUDITHGEORGE Volume23:192pp.,1995,ISBN0^85323^179^6 DonatistMartyrStories:TheChurchinCon£ictinRomanNorthAfrica TranslatedwithnotesandintroductionbyMAUREENA.TILLEY Volume24:144pp.,1996,ISBN0^85323^931^2 HilaryofPoitiers:Con£ictsofConscienceandLawintheFourth-CenturyChurch TranslatedwithintroductionandnotesbyLIONELR.WICKHAM Volume25:176pp.,1997,ISBN0^85323^572^4 LivesoftheVisigothicFathers TranslatedandeditedbyA.T.FEAR Volume26:208pp.,1997,ISBN0^85323^58(cid:1)1 Optatus:AgainsttheDonatists TranslatedandeditedbyMARKEDWARDS Volume27:220pp.,1997,ISBN0^85323^752^2 Bede:ABiblicalMiscellany TranslatedwithnotesandintroductionbyW.TRENTFOLEYand ARTHURG.HOLDER Volume28:240pp.,1998,ISBN0^85323^683^6 Bede:TheReckoningofTime Translatedwithintroduction,notesandcommentarybyFAITHWALLIS Volume29:582pp.,1999,ISBN0^85323^693^3 RuriciusofLimogesandFriends:ACollectionofLettersfromVisigothicGaul TranslatedwithnotesandintroductionbyRALPHW.MATHISEN Volume30:272pp.,1998,ISBN0^85323^703^4 TheArmenianHistoryattributedtoSebeos Translated with notes by R. W. THOMSON, Historical commentary by JAMES HOWARD-JOHNSTON.AssistancefromTIMGREENWOOD Volume31(intwoparts):240pp.,224pp.,1999,ISBN0^85323^564^3 ForfulldetailsofTranslatedTextsforHistorians,includingpricesand orderinginformation,pleasewritetothefollowing: Allcountries,excepttheUSAandCanada:LiverpoolUniversityPress, 4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZU, UK (Tel +44^[0]151^794 2233, Fax +44^[0]151^794 2235, Email [email protected], http:// www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk). USA and Canada: University of Penn- sylvania Press, 4200 Pine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104^6097, USA (Tel+1^215^898^6264,Fax+1^215^898^0404). TranslatedTextsforHistorians Volume34 Antioch as a Centre of Hellenic Culture as Observed by Libanius translatedwithanintroductionbyA.F.Norman Liverpool University Press Firstpublished2000 LiverpoolUniversityPress 4CambridgeStreet Liverpool,L697ZU Copyright(cid:1)2000theestateofA.F.Norman Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproduced inanyformwithoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers, exceptbyareviewerinconnectionwithareviewforinclusion inamagazineornewspaper. BritishLibraryCataloguing-in-PublicationData ABritishLibraryCIPRecordisavailable ISBN0^85323^595^3 SetinMonotypeTimesby WilmasetLtd,Birkenhead,Wirral PrintedintheEuropeanUnionby BellandBainLtd,Glasgow For Ben withoutwhosehelpthiswouldneverhavebeenseen TABLEOFCONTENTS EDITOR’SNOTE ix GENERALINTRODUCTION xi SELECTBIBLIOGRAPHY xix ABBREVIATIONS xxiii PART I: IN THE REIGN OF CONSTANTIUS Oration11: TheAntiochikos:InPraiseofAntioch Introduction 3 TextandNotes 7 Oration31: TotheAntiochenesfortheTeachers Introduction 66 TextandNotes 70 PART II: IN THE REIGN OF THEODOSIUS Oration62: AgainsttheCriticsofhisEducationalSystem Introduction 87 TextandNotes 90 Oration43: OntheAgreements Introduction 111 TextandNotes 114 Oration36: OntheMagicalPractices Introduction 123 TextandNotes 126 Oration34: AgainsttheSlandersofthePedagogue Introduction 133 TextandNotes 136 Oration42: ForThalassius Introduction 145 TextandNotes 148 Oration58: TohisStudentsontheCarpeting Introduction 169 TextandNotes 170 viii LIBANIUS Oration3: TohisStudentsabouthisSpeech Introduction 183 TextandNotes 185 INDEX OF PERSONS AND PLACES IN THE TEXT 193 MAPOFANTIOCH 199 EDITOR’SNOTE Iwouldliketoexpressthankstothefollowingpeoplefortheirdi¡erent important contributions to this volume. John Matthews brought this unpublished material to the attention of the Editorial Board ofTrans- lated Texts forHistorians and arranged for the typing of the twolong speeches,11and62.BenNormanproducedatypescriptoftheremaining speechesafterrevisionbyhisgrandfather,ProfessorA.F.Norman,and provided an invaluable communication line withProfessor Norman in thelaterstagesofpreparation.RegineMaydidextensivetypographical andcopy-editing worktoproducethe¢nalintegratedmanuscript,and alsocompiledtheindex.WeareverysadthatProfessorNormandidnot livetoseethisvolume,overwhichhetookgreatpains. The map of Antioch is based an that in the translation of The Chronicle of John Malalas by Elizabeth Je¡reys, Michael Je¡reys and RogerScott(ByzantiaAustraliensia4,Melbourne1986),309.Itinturn wasredrawnfromthemapinG.Downey,AHistoryofAntiochinSyria (Princeton 1961), plate 11. Translated Texts for Historians is grateful bothtotheAustralianAssociationofByzantineStudiesandtoPrinceton UniversityPressforpermissiontousethismap. MaryWhitby June2000

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