Eastern Roman society on the whole is …
Years: 425 - 425
Eastern Roman society on the whole is an educated one.
Primary education is widely available, sometimes even at village level and uniquely in this society for both sexes.
Female participation in culture is high.
At this time, various economic schools, colleges, polytechnics, libraries and fine arts academies are also open in the city.
Scholarship is fostered not only in Constantinople but also in institutions operated in such major cities as Antioch and Alexandria.
At the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia, Theodosius in 425 establishes an institute of higher education in Constantinople, under the name of Pandidakterion; it is the nucleus of the later University of Constantinople, endowing thirty-one chairs—fifteen in Latin and sixteen in Greek—for law, philosophy, medicine, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, rhetoric and other subjects.
The main content of higher education for most students is rhetoric, philosophy and law with the aim of producing competent, learned personnel to staff the bureaucratic postings of state and church.
In this sense, the university is the secular equivalent of the Theological Schools.
The university will maintain an active philosophical tradition of Platonism and Aristotelianism, with the former being the longest unbroken Platonic school, running for close to two millennia until the fifteenth century.
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Years: 425 - 425
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People
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- East, Diocese of the
- East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of
- Roman Empire: Theodosian dynasty (Constantinople)
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Subregions