A Companion to Ancient Education

Herausgegeben von Bloomer, W. Martin

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices and theories in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.

Reflects the latest research findings and presents new historical syntheses of the rise, spread, and purposes of ancient education in ancient Greece and Rome
Offers comprehensive coverage of the main periods, crises, and developments of ancient education along with historical sketches of various educational methods and the diffusion of education throughout the ancient world
Covers both liberal and illiberal (non-elite) education during antiquity
Addresses the material practice and material realities of education, and the primary thinkers during antiquity through to late antiquity

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 173mm x 244mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9781444337532
• ISBN-10: 144433753X
• Artikelnr.: 41974669

Autorenporträt

W. Martin Bloomer is Professor of Classics and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Literature at the University of Notre Dame. His publications include Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility (1993), Latinity and Literary Society at Rome (1997), The Contest of Language (2005), and The School of Rome (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 W. Martin Bloomer PART I Literary
and Moral Education in Archaic and Classical Greece 5 1 Origins and
Relations to the Near East 7 Mark Griffith 2 The Earliest Greek Systems of
Education 26 Mark Griffith PART II Accounts of Systems 61 3 Sophistic
Method and Practice 63 David Wolfsdorf 4 Socrates as Educator 77 David K.
O'Connor 5 Spartan Education 90 Anton Powell 6 Athens 112 David M.
Pritchard 7 Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy 123 Gretchen Reydams?-Schils
PART III The Spread and Development of Greek Schooling in the Hellenistic
Era 135 8 Learning to Read and Write 137 William A. Johnson 9 School
Structures, Apparatus, and Materials 149 Raffaella Cribiore 10 The
Progymnasmata and Progymnasmatic Theory in Imperial Greek Education 160
Robert J. Penella 11 The Ephebeia in the Hellenistic Period 172 Nigel M.
Kennell 12 Corporal Punishment in the Ancient School 184 W. Martin Bloomer
PART IV The Roman Transformation 199 13 Etruscan and Italic Literacy and
the Case of Rome 201 Daniele F. Maras 14 Schools, Teachers, and Patrons in
Mid?-Republican Rome 226 Enrica Sciarrino 15 The Education of the Ciceros
240 Susan Treggiari 16 Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Educational
Ideals and Methods: The Greek World 252 Elzbieta Szabat 17 Late Antiquity
and the Transmission of Educational Ideals and Methods: The Western Empire
267 Ilaria L. E. Ramelli PART V Theories and Themes of Education 279 18 The
Persistence of Ancient Education 281 Robin Barrow 19 The Education of Women
in Ancient Rome 292 Emily A. Hemelrijk 20 The Education of Women in Ancient
Greece 305 Aleksander Wolicki 21 Isocrates 321 James R. Muir 22 Plutarch
335 Sophia A. Xenophontos 23 Quintilian on Education 347 W. Martin Bloomer
24 Challenges to Classical Education in Late Antiquity: The Case of
Augustine of Hippo 358 Hildegund Müller PART VI Non?-Literary and
Non?-Elite Education 373 25 Education in the Visual Arts 375 J. J. Pollitt
26 Mathematics Education 387 Nathan Sidoli 27 Musical Education in Greece
and Rome 401 Stefan Hagel and Tosca Lynch 28 Medicine 413 Herbert Bannert
29 Sport and Education in Ancient Greece and Rome 430 Sarah C. Murray 30
Roman Legal Education 444 Andrew M. Riggsby 31 Toys and Games 452 Leslie J.
Shumka 32 Slaves 464 Kelly L. Wrenhaven 33 Masters and Apprentices 474
Christian Laes 34 Military Training 483 Preston Bannard Index 496