Libanius: Ten Mythological and Historical Declamations

Robert J. Penella is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Fordham University, New York. His major areas of interest are Late Antiquity, ancient rhetoric and oratory, and Roman historiography. He is the author of The Letters of Apollonius of Tyana: A Critical Text with Prolegomena, Translation and Commentary (1979), Greek Philosophers and Sophists in the Fourth Century AD: Studies in Eunapius of Sardis (1990), The Private Orations of Themistius (1999), and Man and the Word: The Orations of Himerius (2007). He is also the contributing editor of Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity: A Translation of Choricius of Gaza's 'Preliminary Talks' and 'Declamations' (Cambridge, 2009).

• 1. General introduction; 2. Introduction to the mythological declamations; 3. The mythological declamations; 4. Introduction to the historical declamations; 5. The historical declamations.