City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria / Edward J. Watts.
- Watts, Edward Jay, 1975-
- Date:
- [2006], ©2006
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Publication/Creation
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006], ©2006.
Physical description
xii, 288 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index.
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