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Author Watts, Edward Jay, 1975-

Title City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria [electronic resource] / Edward J. Watts.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

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Description xii, 288 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Transformation of the classical heritage ; 41
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Transformation of the classical heritage ; 41.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) ([Transformation of the classical heritage]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject Education, Ancient -- Greece -- Athens.
Education, Ancient -- Egypt -- Alexandria.
Athens (Greece) -- Intellectual life.
Alexandria (Egypt) -- Intellectual life.
Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Original 0520244214 (DLC)2005005830
Standard No. 2027/heb07953 hdl

 
    
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