Education in Greek and Roman antiquity / / editor, Yun Lee Too.

• TeilnehmendeR: Too, Yun Lee.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 477 pages)

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...

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.