City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria
By: Edward Watts.
Series: The transformation of the classical heritage
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Education, Ancient -- Greece -- Athens.; Education, Ancient -- Egypt -- Alexandria.; Athens (Greece) -- Intellectual life.; Alexandria (Egypt) -- Intellectual life.; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Academic life in the Roman Empire; title: Athenian education in the second through fourth centuries; title: Prohaeresius and the later fourth century; title: Athens and its philosophical schools in the fifth century; title: The closing of the Athenian schools?; title: Alexandrian intellectual life in the Roman imperial period; title: The shifting sands of fourth century Alexandrian cultural life; title: Alexandrian schools of the fifth century; title: The coming revolution.