id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1579 Libanius - Wikipedia .html text/html 1746 199 63 The surviving works of Libanius, which include over 1,600 letters, 64 speeches and 96 progymnasmata (rhetorical exercises), are valuable as a historical source for the changing world of the later 4th century.[2] His oration "A Reply To Aristides On Behalf Of The Dancers" is one of the most important records of Roman concert dance, particularly that immensely popular form known as pantomime.[4] 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. The two volumes of selections in the Loeb Classical Library devote one volume to Libanius' orations that bear on the emperor Julian, the other on Theodosius; the most famous is his "Lamentation" about the desecration of the temples (Περὶ τῶν Ἱερῶν); Open source XML version of Libanius' works by the University of Leipzig, at Open Greek & Latin Project Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1579.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1579.txt