City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria Book

Acknowledgments xi

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

Conclusion 257

Bibliography 263

Index 281