City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria

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 of Athens and Alexandria from the second to the sixth centuries to shed new light on the interaction between the pagan cultural legacy and Christianity. While previous scholarship has seen Christian reactions to pagan educational culture as the product of an empire-wide process of development, Edward J. Watts crafts two narratives that reveal how differently education was shaped by the local power structures and urban contexts of each city. 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.

ISBN 0520244214   Pages 300 ISBN13 9780520244214 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher The University Press Group Ltd   Weight (grammes) 542 Imprint University of California Press   Published in CA Format Hardback   Series title Transformation of the Classical Heritage Publication date 07 Mar 2006   Height (mm) 235 Library of Congress 2005005830   Width (mm) 159 DEWEY 370.938   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

1		Academic life in the Roman Empire		1
2		Athenian education in the second through fourth centuries		24
3		Prohaeresius and the later fourth century		48
4		Athens and its philosophical schools in the fifth century		79
5		The closing of the Athenian schools		111
6		Alexandrian intellectual life in the Roman imperial period		143
7		The shifting sands of fourth-century Alexandrian cultural life		169
8		Alexandrian schools of the fifth century		204
9		The coming revolution		232

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