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"This fully annotated volume offers the first English translation of the orations of Himerius of Athens, a prominent teacher of rhetoric in the fourth century AD. Man and the Word contains seventy-nine surviving orations and fragments of orations in the grand tradition of imperi…
Himerius' speeches, a rich source on the intellectual life of late antiquity, capture the flavour of student life in Athens illuminating relations in the educated community and illustrating the ongoing civic role of the sophist.