City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria

1. Verfasser: Watts, Edward Jay, 1975-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2008.
Ausgabe: First paperback ed.
Umfang/Format: xii, 288 p. ; 23 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Transformation of the classical heritage ; 41
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.