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Title

Alexandria : auditoria of Kom El-dikka and late antique education / edited by Tomasz Derda, Tomasz Markiewicz, Ewa Wipszycka.

Publication

Warsaw : Warsaw University, Faculty of Law and Administration : Warsaw University, Institute of Archaeology, Dept. of Papyrology : Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Derda, Tomasz
• Fundacja im. Rafała Taubenschlaga.
• Markiewicz, Tomasz.
• Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Prawa i Administracji.
• Uniwersytet Warszawski. Zakład Papirologii.
• Wipszycka, Ewa.

Description

viii, 345 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, plans; 30 cm.

Series Statement

Journal of juristic papyrology. Supplement ; v. 8

Uniform Title

Journal of juristic papyrology. Supplement ; v. 8.

Alternative Title

• Auditoria of Kom El-dikka and late antique education
• Auditoria of Kom El-dikka in the cultural and educational life of the late antique city.

Subject

• Alexandria (Egypt) > Antiquities, Roman > Congresses
• Alexandria (Egypt) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Congresses
• Alexandria (Egypt) > Intellectual life > Congresses
• Auditoriums > Alexandria > Congresses
• Dikkah, Kawm al- (Alexandria, Egypt) > Congresses
• Education, Ancient > Egypt > Congresses
• Egypt > Antiquities, Roman > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Alexandria > Congresses
• Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. > Congresses

Note

• "The book is the result of the colloquium The auditoria of Kom El-dikka in the cultural and educational life of the late antique city, held in Alexandria, 16-17 March 2005"--T.p. verso.
• Map and plan on lining papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Seven papers in English, 1 in French and 1 in German.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Roger S. Bagnall -- The late Roman auditoria of Alexandria : an archaeological overview / Grzegorz Majcherek -- The place in late antique Alexandria "where alchemists and scholars sit (...) was like stairs" / Judith S. McKenzie -- Kôm el-Dikka in context : the auditoria and the history of late antique Alexandria / Christopher Haas -- L'enseignement des belles-lettres dans l'Alexandrie antique tardive / Jean-Luc Fournet -- Some architectural prototypes for the auditoria at Kom el-Dikka and three late antique (fifth century AD) comparanda from Aphrodisias in Caria / Katherine E. Welch -- Some remarks on the function of the auditoria of Kom el-Dikka / Mona Haggag -- Spaces for teaching in late antiquity / Raffaella Cribiore -- Places of public reading in late antiquity / Guglielmo Cavallo -- Scholae et bibliothecae : Überlegungen zum Zusammenhang von Schulen und Bibliotheken in römischen Reich / Konrad Vössing -- The influence of Alexandria on the intellectual life of Gaza (fifth-sixth centuries AD) / Delphine Renaut -- Teachers in the Eastern Roman Empire (fifth-seventh centuries) : a historical study and prosopography / Elżbieta Szabat.

ISBN

• 9788391825075
• 8391825078

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library