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This book studies the complex attitude of late ancient Christians towards classical education. In recent years, the different theoretical positions that can be found among the Church Fathers have received particular attention: their statements ranged from enthusiastic assimilation to outright rejection, the latter sometimes masking implicit adoption. Shifting attention away from such explicit statements, this volume focuses on a series of lesser-known texts in order to study the impact of specific literary and social contexts on late ancient educational views and practices. By moving attention from statements to strategies this volume wishes to enrich our understanding of the creative engagement with classical ideals of education. The multi-faceted approach adopted here illuminates the close connection between specific educational purposes on the one hand, and the possibilities and limitations offered by specific genres and contexts on the other. Instead of seeing attitudes towards education in late antique texts as applications of theoretical positions, it reads them as complex negotiations between authorial intent, the limitations of genre, and the context of performance.
Contents
Part I Monastic Education: Early monasticism and the rhetorical tradition: sayings and stories as school texts, Larsen / The education of Shenoute and other Cenobitic leaders: inside and outside of the monastery, Timbie / Teaching the new classics: Bible and biography in a Pachomian monastery, Watts / Part II Gnomic Knowledge: An education through gnomic wisdom: the Pandect of Antiochus as Bibliotheksersatz, Papadogiannakis / Syriac translations of Plutarch, Lucian, and Themistius: a gnomic format for an instructional purpose?, Rigolio / Athens and/or Jerusalem? Basil's and Chrysostom's views on the didactic use of literature and stories, Stenger / Part III Protreptic: Christian hagiography and the rhetorical tradition: Victricius of Rouen, In Praise of the Saints, Gemeinhardt / Falsification as a protreptic to truth: the force of the forged epistolary exchange between Basil and Libanius, Van Hoof / Scripture and liturgy in the Life of Mary of Egypt, Krueger / Part IV Secular and Religious Learning: How shall we plead? The Conference of Carthage (411) on styles of argument, Van Nuffelen / Victor of Vita and secular education, Vössing / Education in the Syriac world of Late Antiquity, King / Index.
