Education in Greek and Roman antiquity

Education in Greek and Roman antiquity / edited by Yun Lee Too.

This text 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.
Subjects:
Education, Ancient.
Education, Greek.
Education > Rome.
Classical education > History.
EDUCATION > History.
EDUCATION > Comparative.
Classical education
Education
Education, Ancient
Education, Greek
Pädagogik
Klassieke oudheid.
Onderwijs.
Rome (Empire)
Griechenland > Altertum
Römisches Reich
Griechenland <Altertum>
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • The Problems of the Past in Imperial Greek Education / Joy Connolly
  • Images as Education in the Roman Empire (2nd-3rd Centuries C.E.) / 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.

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