Volume 3, 1998
Ancient Philosophy
Eugene Afonasin
Pages 1-14
Pythagorean Symbolism and the Philosophic Paideia in the Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria
This paper discusses certain aspects of the philosophy of education developed by the second century Christian writer Clement of Alexandria. Special attention is given to the place of his philosophy in the context of both pagan and Christian philosophical and theological movements as they relate to the Neopythagorean tradition that was revived in the first century.