6 The Silent Third Century and Its Exception: Eumenius’ Oratio pro instaurandis scholis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Zu dieser Reihe VII
3. Zu diesem Band IX
4. Acknowledgements XI
5. Preface XIII
6. Contents XV
7. I Laying the Foundations
8. 1 Introduction 1
9. 2 Humanitas from the Republican Age to that of Domitian 46
10. II Pagan Humanitas in the Imperial Age
11. 3 A New Apogee of Humanitas in the Trajanic Age: Pliny the Younger, Tacitus and Suetonius 81
12. 4 Trials and Educational Programmes: The Specialisation(s) of Humanitas in the Antonine Age 134
13. 5 Humanitas in School: [Quintilian’s] Declamationes Minores and Maiores 182
14. 6 The Silent Third Century and Its Exception: Eumenius’ Oratio pro instaurandis scholis 205
15. 7 The Age of Constantine and Another Exception: Firmicus Maternus’ Civilization Without παιδεία in the Mathesis 215
16. 8 Humanitas in the Thedosian Age: The Reproposition of the Trajanic Pattern? 224
17. 9 Back (or Forward?) to the Ontological Origins of Humanitas: The Asclepius 317
18. 10 Pagan Humanitas in the Imperial Age: Concluding Remarks 330
19. Appendices
20. Abbreviations 337
21. Bibliography 339
22. Index Locorum 361
23. Index Rerum 373
24. Index Nominum 377