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"as a result of participation in Eugenius' revolt of the last of the pagans against emperor Diocletian" I removed this garble, revised the text and added some dab to Libanius' works. Wetman 18:54, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
"of which Libanius would have been proud." I removed this because it isn't appropiate for an encyclopedia.
This repeats an explanation I made for Symmachus.
If you called Libanius a pagan, you would've been insulting him: see this definition of "Pagan" from the great Peter Brown, from which I give an extract:
There was no such thing as "paganism" at the time of Libanius; there were the diverse traditional religions of antiquity that Libanius chose to adhere to in the face of Christian hegemony. People who had not converted to Christianity, particularly educated people such as Symmachus and Libanius, called themselves Hellenes if they wished to make a point of it. To use the terms "paganism" or "pagan" is to give a distorted picture of ancient religious practice and belief, which was not monolithic. Cynwolfe ( talk) 14:00, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
"He studied in Athens and began his career in Constantinople as a private tutor, but was soon exiled to Nicomedia. Before his exile, Libanius was a friend of the emperor Julian" versus "His first Oration I is an autobiographical narrative, first written in 374 and revised throughout his life, a scholar's account that ends as an old exile's private journal. In 354, he accepted the chair of rhetoric in Antioch, where he stayed until his death." makes no sense. Lacking dates and basing my words solely on Gibbon's account, I gather he stayed in Antioch just before Julian's death. So, was it Constantinople --> Nicomedia --> Antioch or Constantinople --> Antioch --> Nicomedia --> Antioch? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.191.69 ( talk) 17:20, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
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"as a result of participation in Eugenius' revolt of the last of the pagans against emperor Diocletian" I removed this garble, revised the text and added some dab to Libanius' works. Wetman 18:54, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
"of which Libanius would have been proud." I removed this because it isn't appropiate for an encyclopedia.
This repeats an explanation I made for Symmachus.
If you called Libanius a pagan, you would've been insulting him: see this definition of "Pagan" from the great Peter Brown, from which I give an extract:
There was no such thing as "paganism" at the time of Libanius; there were the diverse traditional religions of antiquity that Libanius chose to adhere to in the face of Christian hegemony. People who had not converted to Christianity, particularly educated people such as Symmachus and Libanius, called themselves Hellenes if they wished to make a point of it. To use the terms "paganism" or "pagan" is to give a distorted picture of ancient religious practice and belief, which was not monolithic. Cynwolfe ( talk) 14:00, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
"He studied in Athens and began his career in Constantinople as a private tutor, but was soon exiled to Nicomedia. Before his exile, Libanius was a friend of the emperor Julian" versus "His first Oration I is an autobiographical narrative, first written in 374 and revised throughout his life, a scholar's account that ends as an old exile's private journal. In 354, he accepted the chair of rhetoric in Antioch, where he stayed until his death." makes no sense. Lacking dates and basing my words solely on Gibbon's account, I gather he stayed in Antioch just before Julian's death. So, was it Constantinople --> Nicomedia --> Antioch or Constantinople --> Antioch --> Nicomedia --> Antioch? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.191.69 ( talk) 17:20, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
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