City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria/

Main Author: Watts, Edward Jay, 1975-
Format: Book
Published: Berkeley: University of California Press, c2006
Series:The transformation of the classical heritage 41
Subjects:
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.