Pandidakterion of Constantinople

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The Pandidakterion of Constantinople was the principal institution of higher learning in the Byzantine Empire, serving as an imperial university that taught a wide range of disciplines in the capital city.

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instanceOf Byzantine educational institution
institution of higher learning
university
affiliation Byzantine imperial court NERFINISHED
Eastern Roman Empire NERFINISHED
alsoKnownAs Imperial University of Constantinople NERFINISHED
University of Constantinople NERFINISHED
country Byzantine Empire
educationalLevel tertiary education
educationalModel state-controlled higher education
foundedBy Theodosius II NERFINISHED
foundingCentury 5th century
foundingDate 425
funding imperial treasury
governedBy Byzantine emperor
hasFaculty professors of law
professors of philosophy
professors of rhetoric
hasNotableAlumni Byzantine bureaucrats
Byzantine jurists
Byzantine scholars
historicalPeriod Late Antiquity
Middle Byzantine period NERFINISHED
influenced later universities in the Eastern Mediterranean
medieval Byzantine education
languageOfInstruction Greek
locatedIn Constantinople NERFINISHED
capital of the Byzantine Empire
partOf educational system of the Byzantine Empire
precededBy earlier rhetorical schools in Constantinople
region Eastern Mediterranean NERFINISHED
religion Christianity
role imperial university NERFINISHED
principal institution of higher learning in the Byzantine Empire
similarTo ancient Roman state schools
medieval universities
status defunct
taughtDiscipline arithmetic
astronomy
classical literature
geometry
grammar
law
medicine
music
philosophy
rhetoric

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University of Constantinople alternativeName Pandidakterion of Constantinople