City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria Paperback / softback
by Edward J. Watts
Part of the Transformation of the Classical Heritage series
Paperback / softback
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A lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education, this book explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities Athens and Alexandria from the second to the sixth century to shed new light on the interaction between the pagan cultural legacy and Christianity.
Watts crafts two narratives that reveal how differently education was shaped by the local power structures and urban contexts of each city.
He touches on the careers of Herodes Atticus, Proclus, Damascius, Ammonius Saccus, Origen, Hypatia and Olympiodorus, and on events including the Herulian sack of Athens and the rise of Arian Christianity to show that by the sixth century, Athens and Alexandria had two distinct, locally determined approaches to pagan teaching with their roots in the unique historical relationships between city and school.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:300 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:10/09/2008
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- ISBN:9780520258167
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:300 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:10/09/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520258167
