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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watts, Edward J., 1975-

Series:

Transformation of the classical heritage ; 41.

Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.

The transformation of the classical heritage ; 41

The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Ancient--Greece--Athens.

Education, Ancient.

Education, Ancient--Egypt--Alexandria.

Athens (Greece)--Intellectual life.

Athens (Greece).

Alexandria (Egypt)--Intellectual life.

Alexandria (Egypt).

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 288 p.).

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, c2006.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520931800

0520931807

OCLC:

733997293

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07953 hdl