Education in the Greco-Roman world was a hallmark of the polis. The volume suggests a new explanatory model that helps to understand better how conditions in the cities shaped learning and teaching, and how in turn education had an impact on its urban context.

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Learning Cities: A Novel Approach to Ancient Paideia, Jan R. Stenger; 2 The Role of Big Data in Elucidating Learning Cities Ancient, Present and Future, Michael Osborne, Muir Houston and Catherine Lido; 3 The Importance of the Greek Polis for Greek Literature, or Why Gaza?, Martin Hose; 4 Augustine's Rhetorics of Theology: Religious Debates in Late Antique Carthage, Therese Fuhrer; 5 Jerome, Quintilian and Little Paula: Asceticism, Education and Ideology, Christa Gray; 6 The Sixth-Century City in the Roman East: Survival or Demise of the Traditional Urban Context?, Ine Jacobs; 7 Town and Gown in the Orations of Choricius of Gaza, Fotini Hadjittofi; 8 Ideals of Education and Sophistic Realities in Late Antique Gaza, David Westberg; 9 Procopius of Gaza and the Debate on Rhetoric versus. Law in His Letters: Was There a Leading Form of Knowledge in Late Antiquity?, Claudia Tiersch; 10 Tradition and Habituation in Rhetorical and Monastic Education at Gaza, Michael W. Champion; 11 Consensus versus Diktat: Two Models of Cultural Leadership in Gaza, Jan R. Stenger; Index