Jealousies of rival Sophists illustrated from Eunapius. Another illustration of their bitter feeling and rhetorical skill
The three great Sophists rather Asiatic than Hellenic in race The general character of their educational influence The personal ties between teacher and student were very close, and desertion keenly felt by the lecturer
The bitter resentment of Eunapius and Libanius. The schools of Athens suffered from the downfall of Pagan- ism, and from the spread of legal and Latin studies