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

Author: Watts, Edward Jay, 1975-

Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.

Descriptionxii, 288 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:Originally published: 2006.

Note: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.

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

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