This book provides insight into the ideas and practice of learning in late antiquity. In Macrobius's Saturnalia and Martianus Capella's De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii two fathers write letters to their son with advice for life. In his Letters Sidonius Apollinaris offers a clear vision of his ideas about education.

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Matthias Gerth, Göttingen.