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This paper, therefore, aims to show how periautologia worked in the late antique cultural milieu by focusing on its use in the speeches of one of the most representative figures of the fourth century AD: the sophist Libanius of Antioch. 2) through the lens of periautologia, as this speech stands out in his oeuvre because of the extent of the self-praise exercised by Libanius. A Theoretical Approach to Periautologia Apart from Plutarch`s opuscule On praising oneself inoffensively (which will be dealt with below), ancient literary and rhetorical treatises did not address periautologia . . .
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