From the Book - First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Prologue: The Banquet. Introduction: Greece becoming Roman
Scrolls, education and travel
Philosophy and its schools
Interlude One. The Res Gestae of Augustus and the Sebasteion of Aphrodisias. The Botanist: Dioscorides
The Philosopher and Biographer: Plutarch
Interlude Two. Hadrian and the patronage of Greek culture. The stoic philosopher: Epictetus
The politician, historian and philosopher: Arian of Nicomedia
The geographer and astronomer: Claudisu Ptolemy
The Satirist: Lucian of Samosata
The travel guide: Pausanias
Interlude three. City life in second-century Asia Minor: Sagalassos. The politician and orator: Dio Chrysostom
The rhetorician: Aelius Aristides
The politician and philanthropist: Herodes Atticus
Interlude four. The clouds darken: The Greek world in an age of crisis. The philosopher: Plotinus
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The Biblical scholar: Origen
Interlude five. Constantinople and the promulgation of Christian orthodoxy. The court orator: Themistius
The last of the pagan orators: Libanius
The neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician: Hypatia
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