The Philosophical Schools

3. Athene and Her Owl: the Wisdom of the Greeks
(vi) The Philosophical Schools

Our brief survey has uncovered several features of considerable importance as we approach the task of placing Paul within the world into which he was called to go with the news of a different Lord. As we draw the threads together, we notice that, though the philosophical schools continued to operate in the first century, the outstanding figures we have mentioned seem to have been individuals, rather than professors within a particular establishment...