Search for dissertations about: "Libanius"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word Libanius.

  2. 1. Libanius' Declamations 9 and 10

    Author : Mikael Johansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Libanius; Pseudo-Hermogenes; Themistocles; Neocles; Herodotus; Aelius Aristides; De inventione; rhetoric; declamation; judicial oratory; prooimia; diegesis; pistis; epilogos; basis; apokeryxis;

    Abstract : Of the Antiochene orator Libanius, active in the 4th century A.D., we have an unusually large quantity of literary products preserved. The works attributed to him include among others speeches, progymnasmata, and letters. READ MORE

  4. 2. Sketching the Invisible : Patterns of Church and City in Theodoret of Cyrrhus' Philotheos Historia

    Author : Andreas Westergren; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Late Antiquity; biography; hagiography; panegyric; asceticism; monasticism; Syria; Antioch; Symeon the Stylite; pilgrimage; relics; cult of the saints; civic ideals; invention of tradition; the role of the bishop; ecclesiology; sacralization; christianization; philosophy; Neoplatonism; Libanius; Dionysius Areopagita;

    Abstract : The fundamental question in this work concerns the ideal relation between asceticism and society in a 5th c. writing (C.E.), the Philotheos Historia (PH), written in elaborate Greek by the learned bishop of Cyrrhus, Theodoret. READ MORE