tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post148032831988261668..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: Hypatia Part III: The Deconstruction of the Serapeum TheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-25605147403939149342015-02-14T00:32:21.549-05:002015-02-14T00:32:21.549-05:00This may sound odd to believers in more modern myt...<i>This may sound odd to believers in more modern myths, but the Schools of Old Alexandria were not segregated by “tribe.” (cf. Dzielska) Despite the occasional riots by the lower classes, the pagans of the Upper City could and did attend the lectures of Christian philosophers, and vice versa. </i><br /><br />A good example of this was Olympiodorus the Younger (495-570), the last major pagan philosopher teaching in Alexandria and a number of whose lectures are extant, so that we know what and how he actually taught; in his lectures on the Gorgias, for instance, he occasionally pauses to explain this or that pagan reference to his students, who would (by that time) have been almost entirely Christian.Brandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06698839146562734910noreply@blogger.com