City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria

City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria / Edward J. Watts.

This lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities Athens and Alexandria from the 2nd to the 6th century to shed new light on the interaction between the pagan cultural legacy and Christianity.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watts, Edward J., 1975-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Series:Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Transformation of the classical heritage ; 41.
Subjects:
30 B.C.-476 A.D
Education, Ancient > Greece > Athens.
Education, Ancient > Egypt > Alexandria.
15.51 Antiquity.
HISTORY / Ancient / General.
Education, Ancient
Intellectual life
Bildungswesen
Christentum
Machtstruktur
Geistesleben
Onderwijs.
Klassieke oudheid.
Athens (Greece) > Intellectual life.
Alexandria (Egypt) > Intellectual life.
Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Rome > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. > History.
Egypt > Alexandria
Greece > Athens
Rome (Empire)
Alexandria
Athen
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Academic life in the Roman Empire
  • Athenian education in the second through fourth centuries
  • Prohaeresius and the later fourth century
  • Athens and its philosophical schools in the fifth century
  • The closing of the Athenian schools
  • Alexandrian intellectual life in the Roman imperial period
  • The shifting sands of fourth-century Alexandrian cultural life
  • Alexandrian schools of the fifth century
  • The coming revolution.

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