Libanius
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Libanius was a teacher of rhetoric of the Sophist school in the Eastern Roman Empire. His prolific writings make him one of the best documented teachers of higher education in the ancient world and a
Libanius as imagined in an eighteenth-century woodcut
Julian (emperor)
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Julian was the Caesar of the West from 355 to 360 and Roman emperor from 361 to 363, as well as a notable philosopher and author in Greek. His rejection of Christianity, and his promotion of Neoplaton
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…354. At this time, he held an official appointment as a sophist in the capital and received an imperial salary. Libanius was a friend of the emperor Julian, with whom some correspondence survives, and in whose memory he wrote a series of orations; they were composed between 362 and 379. In winter 353/54…
Julian on a solidus minted at Antioch. Legend: Fl Cl Iulianus p f aug.
Rome solidus minted c. 356. The obverse shows a beardless Julian inscribed dn·cl·iulianus nc. The reverse depicts Roma and Constantinopolis alongside the inscription fel·temp·reparatio ("happy renewal of times"), probably referencing Rome's 1100th anniversary in 348.
Statue at the Musée de Cluny formerly identified as Julian.
Male portrait head, possibly depicting Julian, exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.