Education in the Graeco-Roman world was a hallmark of the polis. Yet the complex ways in which pedagogical theory and practice intersected with their local envi

This study examines how cities have become an area of significant historical debate about late antiquity, challenging accepted notions that it is a period of dy

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 Ath

The city was the nexus of the Roman Empire in its early centuries. The City in Late Antiquity charts the change undergone by cities as the Empire was weakened b

The studies in this volume are based on new archaeological data and provide a full and convincing reassessment of the old image of urban decay and the impact of