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Presents a study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. This book describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned, and what the curriculum comprised.

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Presents a study of the 4th-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. This book examines Libanius' training and personality, and traces how he cultivated a wide network of friends and former pupils and courted powerful officials to recruit top students.