City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria /
Watts, Edward Jay,1975-
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index.
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.
Education, Ancient
Education, Ancient