http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/10/24/out-of-egypt/ Mike Aquilina's Blog Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/10/24/out-of-egypt/comment-page-1/#comment-5204 CaNN :: We started it. Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:04:17 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/10/24/out-of-egypt/#comment-5204 [...] REMEMBERING: “Alexandria in Egypt was the Cambridge of late antiquity. It was a city renowned for its colleges and libraries. The city was ethnically diverse, as its ports were the trading hub of the ancient world. But the dominant language and culture were Greek, and so the backbone of its remarkable educational system were the gymnasia, where the city trained the minds and bodies of young men for their duties as citizens” …. (fathersofthechurch) [...] [...] REMEMBERING: “Alexandria in Egypt was the Cambridge of late antiquity. It was a city renowned for its colleges and libraries. The city was ethnically diverse, as its ports were the trading hub of the ancient world. But the dominant language and culture were Greek, and so the backbone of its remarkable educational system were the gymnasia, where the city trained the minds and bodies of young men for their duties as citizens” …. (fathersofthechurch) [...]

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