Education and religion in late antique Christianity : reflections social contexts and genres 10 How Shall We Plead The Conference of Carthage (411) on Styles of Argument 11 Victor of Vita and Secular Education 12 Education in the Syriac World of Late Antiquity Bibliography Index Cover Title Copyright Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Education and Religion in Late Antiquity: An Introduction PART I Monastic Education 1 Early Monasticism and the Rhetorical Tradition: Sayings and Stories as School Texts 2 The Education of Shenoute and Other Cenobitic Leaders: Inside and Outside of the Monastery 3 Teaching the New Classics: Bible and Biography in a Pachomian Monastery PART II Gnomic Knowledge 4 An Education through Gnomic Wisdom: The Pandect of Antiochus as Bibliotheksersatz 5 Syriac Translations of Plutarch Lucian and Themistius: A Gnomic Format for an Instructional Purpose 6 Athens and or Jerusalem Basils and Chrysostoms Views on the Didactic Use of Literature and Stories PART III Protreptic 7 Christian Hagiography and the Rhetorical Tradition: Victricius of Rouen In Praise of the Saints 8 Falsification as a Protreptic to Truth: The Force of the Forged Epistolary Exchange between Basil and Libanius 9 Scripture and Liturgy in the Life of Mary of Egypt PART IV Secular and Religious Learning