City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria / Edward J. Watts.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006], ©2006.

xii, 288 pages ; 24 cm.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) ([Transformation of the classical heritage]) Mode of access: Intranet.