This is a very good book that has proven itself necessary for a balanced view of education in Late Antiquity. So far scholars have dealt separately with pagan, Christian, Greek, and Roman issues and have not explored sufficiently the higher goals of education from the fourth through sixth centuries. Because he has published extensively on it, Stenger is in a good position to deal with this period. He argues that previous treatments of education have focused on school exercises, the curriculum, individual teachers, and students’ lives. This book, however, concentrates on the educational theorizations made by some thinkers: that is, on educational philosophy. The volume insists on the “inertia” of classical education and discusses the way scholars have not put in relief the changes and transformation of educational practices. It intends to present a more nuanced image of Late Antiquity. Religion, the Christian Church, and culture made a fundamental difference on the way education was conceived.