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 RomeOffers 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 worldCovers both liberal and illiberal (non–elite) education during antiquityAddresses the material practice and material realities of education, and the primary thinkers during antiquity through to late antiquity INDICE: Notes on ContributorsIntroductionAcknowledgementsPART I Literary and Moral Education in Archaic and ClassicalGreece1 Origins and Relations of the Near EastMark Griffith2 The Earliest Greek Systems of EducationMark GriffithPART II Accounts of Systems3 Sophistic Method and PracticeDavid Wolfsdorf4 Socrates as EducatorDavid K. O Connor5 Spartan EducationAnton Powell6 AthensDavid M. Pritchard7 Hellenistic and Roman PhilosophyGretchen Reydams–SchilsPart III The Spread and Development of GreekSchooling in the Hellenistic Era8 Learning to Read and WriteWilliam A. Johnson9 School Structures, Apparatus, and MaterialsRaffaella Cribiore10 The Progymnasmata and Progymnasmatic Theory in ImperialGreek EducationRobert J. Penella11 The Ephebeia in the Hellenistic PeriodNigel M. Kennell12 Corporal Punishment in the Ancient SchoolW. Martin BloomerPART IV The Roman Transformation13 Etruscan and Italic Literacy and the Case of RomeDaniele Maras14 Schools, Teachers, and Patrons in Mid–Republican RomeEnrica Sciarrino15 The Education of the CicerosSusan Treggiari16 Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Educational Idealsand Methods: The Greek WorldElzbieta Szabat17 Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Educational Ideals andMethods: The Western EmpireIlaria L.E. RamelliPART V Theories and Themes of Education18 The Persistence of Ancient EducationRobin Barrow19 The Education of Women in Ancient RomeEmily A. Hemelrijk20 The Education of Women in Ancient GreeceAleksander Wolicki21 IsocratesJames R. Muir22 PlutarchSophia A. Xenophontos23 Quintilian on EducationW. Martin Bloomer24 Challenges to Classical Education in Late Antiquity: TheCase of Augustine of HippoHildegund MüllerPART VI Non–literary and Non–elite Education25 Education in the Visual ArtsJ. J. Pollitt26 Mathematics EducationNathan Sidoli27 MusicStefan Hagel and Tosca Lynch28 MedicineHerbert Bannert29 Sport and Education in Ancient Greece and RomeSarah C. Murray30 Roman Legal EducationAndrew M. Riggsby31 Toys and GamesLeslie J. Shumka32 SlavesKelly L. Wrenhaven33 Masters and ApprenticesChristian Laes34 Military TrainingPreston Bannard
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3753-2
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 528
- Fecha Publicación: 05/05/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés