Michael Champion is Associate Professor in Late Antique and Early Christian Studies at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University. He also directs ACU's Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. After studying classics, late-antique studies, and theology in Melbourne and London, he taught Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Western Australia. His research explores early Christianity, late-antique philosophy and cultural history, history of emotions, history of education, and the history of violence.

This study traces the roots of Dorotheus's understanding of asceticism in classical culture and the distinctive ways that he developed this to provide an account of the ascetic life that has entered into and influenced the Christian monastic tradition.

• 1: Education and Asceticism in Late-Antique Gaza 2: Rhetoric, Philosophy, Medicine: Internalizing Foreign Teaching 3: Education and Epistemology 4: Education, Emotion, and Virtue 5: Education, Habituation, and Moral Development 6: Conclusion: Education and Transformation

Michael Champion is Associate Professor in Late Antique and Early Christian Studies at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University. He also directs ACU's Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. After studying classics, late-antique studies, and theology in Melbourne and London, he taught Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Western Australia. His research explores early Christianity, late-antique philosophy and cultural history, history of emotions, history of education, and the history of violence.

This study traces the roots of Dorotheus's understanding of asceticism in classical culture and the distinctive ways that he developed this to provide an account of the ascetic life that has entered into and influenced the Christian monastic tradition.

• 1: Education and Asceticism in Late-Antique Gaza 2: Rhetoric, Philosophy, Medicine: Internalizing Foreign Teaching 3: Education and Epistemology 4: Education, Emotion, and Virtue 5: Education, Habituation, and Moral Development 6: Conclusion: Education and Transformation

Michael Champion is Associate Professor in Late Antique and Early Christian Studies at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University. He also directs ACU's Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. After studying classics, late-antique studies, and theology in Melbourne and London, he taught Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Western Australia. His research explores early Christianity, late-antique philosophy and cultural history, history of emotions, history of education, and the history of violence.

This study traces the roots of Dorotheus's understanding of asceticism in classical culture and the distinctive ways that he developed this to provide an account of the ascetic life that has entered into and influenced the Christian monastic tradition.

• 1: Education and Asceticism in Late-Antique Gaza 2: Rhetoric, Philosophy, Medicine: Internalizing Foreign Teaching 3: Education and Epistemology 4: Education, Emotion, and Virtue 5: Education, Habituation, and Moral Development 6: Conclusion: Education and Transformation