Demetrios

Demetrios is known chiefly as a correspondent of the Antiochene rhetorician and teacher Libanius (c. 314-393 AD), from whom he received thirteen letters in the surviving collection. The name Demetrius was common, and Libanius corresponded with more than one man of that name; this figure is otherwise little attested and cannot be securely distinguished from his namesakes. Based on the milieu of Libanius's correspondence, he was probably a fellow rhetor, a former pupil, or a provincial notable active in the Greek-speaking eastern provinces (likely the region of Antioch in Syria) during the second half of the fourth century AD. No specific offices, dates, or biographical events can be reliably assigned to him beyond his appearance as a recipient in this correspondence.