City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria

by Edward Jay Watts

Paper Book, 2006

Status

Available

Call number

370/.0938

Tags

Graeco-Roman World, Athens, Alexandria, Schools, Education, Neoplatonism, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent

Genres

Collection

Don

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

Description

This lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities Athens and Alexandria from the 2nd to the 6th century to shed new light on the interaction between the pagan cultural legacy and Christianity.

Subjects

Alexandria (Egypt) Intellectual life
Athens (Greece) Intellectual life
Education, Ancient Egypt Alexandria
Education, Ancient Greece Athens
Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D

Awards

CAMWS First Book Award (2007)

Language

English

Physical description

xii, 288 p.; 24 cm

ISBN

0520244214 / 9780520244214

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