Learning Cities in Late Antiquity (eBook, PDF)

The Local Dimension of Education
Redaktion: Stenger, Jan R.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Education in the Greco-Roman world was a hallmark of the polis. The volume suggests a new explanatory model that helps to understand better how conditions in the cities shaped learning and teaching, and how in turn education had an impact on its urban context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351578318
• Artikelnr.: 54786449

Autorenporträt

Jan R. Stenger is the MacDowell Chair of Greek at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Before joining Classics at the University of Glasgow in 2012, he was Junior Professor of Classics at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is Principal Investigator (PI) in the Cluster of Excellence Topoi, Berlin, Germany. His publications include two monographs, edited volumes and articles on Greek lyric poetry, literature and culture of late antiquity, and early Christian literature. His research focusses on educational practice and thinking between c. 300 and 600 CE; he is currently working on a monograph on this topic, funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Learning Cities: A Novel
Approach to Ancient Paideia, Jan R. Stenger; 2 The Role of Big Data in
Elucidating Learning Cities Ancient, Present and Future, Michael Osborne,
Muir Houston and Catherine Lido; 3 The Importance of the Greek Polis for
Greek Literature, or Why Gaza?, Martin Hose; 4 Augustine's Rhetorics of
Theology: Religious Debates in Late Antique Carthage, Therese Fuhrer; 5
Jerome, Quintilian and Little Paula: Asceticism, Education and Ideology,
Christa Gray; 6 The Sixth-Century City in the Roman East: Survival or
Demise of the Traditional Urban Context?, Ine Jacobs; 7 Town and Gown in
the Orations of Choricius of Gaza, Fotini Hadjittofi; 8 Ideals of Education
and Sophistic Realities in Late Antique Gaza, David Westberg; 9 Procopius
of Gaza and the Debate on Rhetoric versus. Law in His Letters: Was There a
Leading Form of Knowledge in Late Antiquity?, Claudia Tiersch; 10 Tradition
and Habituation in Rhetorical and Monastic Education at Gaza, Michael W.
Champion; 11 Consensus versus Diktat: Two Models of Cultural Leadership in
Gaza, Jan R. Stenger; Index