Editing Libanius (section)

{{Short description|Greek rhetorician (4th century AD)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name          = Libanius
| image         = File:Libanius the sophist.jpg
|image_size     = 250px
| caption       = Libanius as imagined in an eighteenth-century woodcut
| birth_name    = <!-- only use if different from name -->
| birth_date    = {{Circa|314 AD}}
| birth_place   = [[Antioch]], [[Coele Syria (Roman province)|Coele-Syria]] 
| death_date    = 392 or 393 AD
| death_place   = [[Antioch]], [[Coele Syria (Roman province)|Coele-Syria]]
| nationality   = <!-- use only when necessary per [[WP:INFONAT]] -->
| occupation    = Teacher of [[rhetoric]]
| years_active  = 
| known_for     = 
| notable_works = ''Oration I'', ''A Reply To Aristides On Behalf Of The Dancers'', ''Lamentation''
}}
'''Libanius''' ({{langx|grc|Λιβάνιος|Libanios}}; {{c.|314–392 or 393}}) was a teacher of [[rhetoric]] of the [[Sophist]] school in the [[Eastern Roman Empire]].<ref name="EB1911">{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Libanius|volume=16|page=534}}</ref> His prolific writings make him one of the best documented teachers of higher education in the ancient world and a critical source of history of the [[Greek East and Latin West|Greek East]] during the 4th century AD.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bradbury |first1=Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures Scott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeDklnSViQgC |title=Selected Letters of Libanius: From the Age of Constantius and Julian |last2=Libanius |last3=Bradbury |first3=Scott A. |date=2004 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |isbn=978-0-85323-509-5 |pages=2 |language=en}}</ref> During the rise of [[Christianity|Christian]] [[hegemony]] in the later [[Roman Empire]], he remained unconverted and in religious matters was a [[Hellenistic religion|pagan Hellene]].