| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 477 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-472) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Education, Ancient.
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Education, Greek.
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Education -- Rome
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Classical education -- History
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EDUCATION -- History.
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EDUCATION -- Comparative.
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Classical education
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Education
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Education, Ancient
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Education, Greek
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Pädagogik
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Klassieke oudheid.
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Onderwijs.
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Rome (Empire)
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Griechenland Altertum
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Römisches Reich
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Griechenland <Altertum>
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Too, Yun Lee
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| ISBN |
1417536535 |
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9781417536535 |
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9004107819 |
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9789004107816 |
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9047400135 |
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9789047400134 |
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