A Companion to Ancient EducationW. Martin Bloomer 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.
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Contents
Introduction 1 | 3 |
The Earliest Greek Systems of Education | 26 |
Accounts of Systems | 61 |
Socrates as Educator | 77 |
Spartan Education | 90 |
Athens | 112 |
Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy | 123 |
The Spread and Development of Greek Schooling | 135 |
The Education of Women in Ancient Rome | 292 |
The Education of Women in Ancient Greece | 305 |
Isocrates | 321 |
Plutarch | 335 |
Quintilian on Education | 347 |
The Case | 358 |
NonLiterary and NonElite Education | 373 |
Mathematics Education | 387 |
School Structures Apparatus and Materials | 149 |
The Progymnasmata and Progymnasmatic Theory in Imperial | 160 |
The Ephebeia in the Hellenistic Period | 172 |
Corporal Punishment in the Ancient School | 184 |
The Roman Transformation | 199 |
Schools Teachers and Patrons in MidRepublican Rome | 226 |
The Education of the Ciceros | 240 |
Theories and Themes of Education | 279 |
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