As we reflect on the Hellenistic Alexandria of education and culture, of
sophistic rhetoric and philosophy, we need to focus our attention on the work of one of its
most famous and distinct sons in the first decades of our Christian era. Though being few
the explicit references in Philo’s treatises to the city, the models of education and culture
that emerge and take form in them are significantly numerous, if not even decisive to clarify
the sophistic movement and its vitality in his time. We will center our attention in two
topics: Alexandrian sophists under Philo’s critical eyes, and the Alexandrian rhetoric in
his philosophical education.