City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria

Zusatztext “An important book . . . carefully edited.” Informationen zum Autor Edward J. Watts is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Indiana University. Klappentext Touching on the careers of Herodes Atticus! Proclus! Damascius! Ammonius Saccas! Origen! Hypatia! and Olympiodorus; and events including the Herulian sack of Athens! the closing of the Athenian Neoplatonic school under Justinian! the rise of Arian Christianity! and the sack of the Serapeum! he shows that by the sixth century! Athens and Alexandria had two distinct! locally determined! approaches to pagan teaching that had their roots in the unique historical relationships between city and school. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Academic Life in the Roman Empire: Libanius to Aristaenetus 2. Athenian Education in the Second through Fourth Centuries 3. Prohaeresius and the Later Fourth Century 4. Athens and Its Philosophical Schools in the Fifth Century 5. The Closing of the Athenian Schools 6. Alexandrian Intellectual Life in the Roman Imperial Period 7. The Shifting Sands of Fourth-Century Alexandrian Cultural Life 8. Alexandrian Schools of the Fifth Century 9. The Coming Revolution Conclusion Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Edward Watts, Edward J. Watts, Edward J. (Assistant Professor in the Depar Watts, Watts Edward J.
• Assisted by: Edward J. Watts (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.09.2008
• EAN: 9780520258167
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25816-7
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Transformation of the Classica; Transformation of the Classical Heritage
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / World, General & world history, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE