Klematios

Klematios (Clematius) is known chiefly as a correspondent of the sophist Libanius of Antioch, who addressed six surviving letters to him in the mid-fourth century AD. Like many of the men in Libanius's vast epistolary network, he appears to have belonged to the educated curial and official class of the Greek East with whom the rhetor cultivated ties of friendship and patronage, but his specific career and offices are not securely established from the letters alone, and the name Clematius is borne by more than one person in the period. He is best understood as a figure within Libanius's Antiochene circle rather than an independently documented public man.