245 00 |a Learning cities in late antiquity : |b the local dimension of education / |c edited by Jan R. Stenger.

264 _1 |a London ; |a New York : |b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, |c 2019

505 0_ |a Learning cities : a novel approach to ancient Paideia / Jan R. Stenger -- The role of big data in elucidating learning cities ancient, present and future / Michael Osborne, Muir Houston and Catherine Lido -- The importance of the Greek polis for Greek literature, or why Gaza? / Martin Hose -- Augustine's rhetorics of theology : religious debates in late antique Carthage / Therese Fuhrer -- Jerome, Quintilian and little Paula : asceticism, education and ideology / Christa Gray -- The sixth-century city in the Roman east : survival or demise of the traditional urban context? / Ine Jacobs -- Town and gown in the orations of choricius of Gaza / Fotini Hadjittofi -- Ideals of education and sophistic realities in late antique Gaza / David Westberg -- Procopius of Gaza and the debate on rhetoric vs. law in his letters : was there a leading form of knowledge in late antiquity? / Claudia Tiersch -- Tradition and habituation in rhetorical and monastic education at Gaza / Michael W. Champion -- Consensus versus diktat : two models of cultural leadership in Gaza / Jan R. Stenger.