Libanios

Für Religionsfreiheit, Recht und Toleranz

Libanios' Rede für den Erhalt der heidnischen Tempel
Edited by Johannes Hahn, Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Martin Wallraff, Okko Behrends, Klaus S. Freyberger and Hans-Ulrich Wiemer
[For the Preservation of the Pagan Temples (Pro templis)]
2011. 287 pages.
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-156437-6
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Summary
In this work Libanius, the greatest orator of late antiquity, appeals to the tolerance of the Christian emperor Theodosius I and stresses the importance of the pagan temples for the culture and the identity of the surrounding regions.

Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia (SAPERE)