City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria: Volume 41

by Edward Watts

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520258169
• ISBN13: 9780520258167
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"