Education in Greek and Roman antiquity /

This volume examines the idea of ancient education in a series of essays which span the archaic period to late antiquity. It calls into question the idea that education in antiquity is a disinterested process, arguing that teaching and learning were activities that occurred in the context of society...

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Other Authors: Too, Yun Lee.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.

Series: Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online I, ISBN: 9789004219274.

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Call Number: LA71 .E38 2001eb

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Yun Lee Too
  • Introduction: Writing the History of Ancient Education /
  • Yun Lee Too
  • Public and Private in Early Greek Institutions of Education /
  • Mark Griffith
  • Sophists without Rhetoric: The Arts of Speech in Fifth-Century Athens /
  • Andrew Ford
  • Legal Instructions in Classical Athens /
  • Yun Lee Too
  • Liberal Education in Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics /
  • Andrea Wilson Nightingale
  • The Debate Over Civic Education in Classical Athens /
  • Josiah Ober
  • Basic Education in Epicureanism /
  • Elizabeth Asmis
  • The Grammarian's Choice: The Popularity of Euripides' Phoenissae in Hellenistic and Roman Education /
  • Raffaella Cribiore
  • Education in the Roman Republic: Creating Traditions /
  • Anthony Corbeill
  • The Progymnasmata as Practice /
  • Ruth Webb
  • Controlling Reason: Declamation in Rhetorical Education at Rome /
  • Robert A. Kaster
  • Problems of the Past in Imperial Greek Education /
  • Joy Connolly
  • Images as Education in the Roman Empire (Second-Third Centuries Ad) /
  • Aline Rousselle
  • The New Math: How to Add and to Subtract Pagan Elements in Christian Education /
  • Sara Rappe
  • The Schools of Platonic Philosophy of the Roman Empire: The Evidence of the Biographies /
  • Robert Lamberton
  • Bibliography /
  • Yun Lee Too
  • Index /
  • Yun Lee Too.