Monastic Education in Late Antiquity - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-x

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - The Language of Education

pp 11-72

1 - Early Monasticism and the Concept of a “School”

pp 13-32

2 - Translating Paideia: Education in the Greek and Latin Versions of the Life of Antony

pp 33-52

3 - Paideia, Piety, and Power

pp 53-72

Part II - Elementary Education and Literacy

pp 73-150

4 - The Educational and Cultural Background of Egyptian Monks

pp 75-100

5 - “Excavating the Excavations” of Early Monastic Education

pp 101-124

6 - Homer and Menandri Sententiae in Upper Egyptian Monastic Settings*

pp 125-150

Part III - Grammar and Rhetoric

pp 151-216

7 - The School of Didymus the Blind in Light of the Tura Find

pp 153-181

8 - Affecting Rhetoric: The Adoption of Ethopoeia in Evagrius of Pontus’ Ascetic Program

pp 182-194

9 - Classical Education in Sixth-Century Coptic Monasticism

pp 195-216

Part IV - Philosophy

pp 217-278

10 - The Virtue of Being Uneducated: Attitudes towards Classical Paideia in Early Monasticism and Ancient Philosophy

pp 219-235

11 - Plato Between School and Cell: Biography and Competition in the Fifth-Century Philosophical Field

pp 236-255

12 - Pythagorean Traditions in Early Christian Asceticism

pp 256-278

Part V - Manuscript and Literary Production

pp 279-342

13 - Textual Fluidity and Authorial Revision

pp 281-305

14 - Production, Distribution and Ownership of Books in the Monasteries of Upper Egypt: the Evidence of the Nag Hammadi Colophons

pp 306-325

15 - Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: Approaching Arabic Recensions of the Apophthegmata Patrum

pp 326-342

Bibliography

pp 343-379

Index

pp 380-388