City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria. By Edward J. Watts
This scholarly and well-argued book delivers a new and welcome investigation into the history of education in Late Antiquity. The book focuses on two significant cities of the period, and analyses their cultural and intellectual identities in a way that respects the important differences between the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 695-698 |
| Review of: | City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria (Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] : Univ. of California Press, 2006) (Ashwin-Siejkowski, Piotr)
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| Summary: | This scholarly and well-argued book delivers a new and welcome investigation into the history of education in Late Antiquity. The book focuses on two significant cities of the period, and analyses their cultural and intellectual identities in a way that respects the important differences between these two milieux. In order to serve this purpose, the book is composed of an opening chapter and two main parts. Each one looks into the connection between the educational distinctiveness and growing struggle for power between the pagan and Christian intellectual elites from the second until the fifth or sixth century ce in each of the two cities. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm051 |