Libanius,^[1] a key figure in fourth-century Antioch, offers invaluable insights into the city’s complex social and religious landscape in this period. Our primary source for understanding his life comes from his own writings. Especially the work titled Autobiography, Oration 1,^[2] (published first in 374 CE, and later revisited)^[3] in modern editions, which appears as a sophistic essay on one’s own Fortune (Tyche, τυχή).^[4] Apart from this, his orations, his letter collection (one of the most extensive ones that survived from antiquity),^[5] and Eunapius’ Lives of Philosophers and Sophists provide valuable insights about his life.^[6] All these accounts expose a man whose thinking was deeply embedded in the traditions of Hellenism.^[7]