A Companion to Ancient Education (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

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 Part I : Literary And Moral Education In Archaic And Classical Greece -- Origins And Relations To The Near East / Mark Griffith -- The Earliest Greek Systems Of Education / Mark Griffith -- Part Ii : Accounts Of Systems -- Sophistic Method And Practice / David Wolfsdorf -- Socrates As Educator / David K. O'connor -- Spartan Education / Anton Powell -- Athens / David M. Pritchard -- Hellenistic And Roman Philosophy / Gretchen Reydams-schls -- Part Iii : The Spread And Development Of Greek Schooling In The Hellenistic Era -- Learning To Read And Write / William A. Johnson -- School Structures, Apparatus, And Materials / Raffaella Cribiore -- The Progymnasmasta And Progymnasmatic Theory In Imperial Greek Education / Robert J. Penella -- The Ephebeia In The Hellenistic Period / Nigel W. Kennell -- Corporal Punishment In The Ancient School / W. Martin Bloomer -- Part Iv : The Roman Transformation -- Etruscan And Italic Literacy And The Case Of Rome / Daniele F. Maras --^ Schools, Teachers, And Patrons In Mid-republican Rome / Enrica Sciarrino -- The Education Of The Ciceros / Susan Treggiari -- Late Antiquity And The Transmission Of Educational Ideals And Methods : The Greek World / Elżbieta Szabat -- Late Antiquity And The Transmission Of Educational Ideals And Methods : The Western Empire / Ilaria L. E. Ramelli -- Part V : Theories And Themes Of Education -- The Persistence Of Ancient Education / Robin Barrow -- The Education Of Women In Ancient Rome / Emily A. Hemelrijk -- The Education Of Women In Ancient Greece / Aleksander Wolicki -- Isocrates / James R. Muir -- Plutarch / Sophia Xenophontos -- Quintilian On Education / W. Martin Bloomer -- Challenges To Classical Education In Late Antiquity : The Case Of Augustine Of Hippo / Hildegund Müller -- Part Vi : Non-literary And Non-elite Education -- Education In The Visual Arts / Jerome J. Pollitt -- Mathematics Education / Nathan Sidoli --^ Musical Education In Greece And Rome / Stefan Hagel And Tosca Lynch -- Medicine / Herbert Bannert -- Sport And Education In Ancient Greece And Rome / Sarah C. Murray -- Roman Legal Education / Andrew M. Riggsby -- Toys And Games / Leslie J. Shumka -- Slaves / Kelly L. Wrenhaven -- Masters And Apprentices / Christian Laes -- Military Training / Preston Bannard. Edited By W. Martin Bloomer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover; Table of Contents; Title page; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; PART I: Literary and Moral Education in Archaic and Classical Greece; CHAPTER 1: Origins and Relations to the Near East; 1. General Issues: Neighbors, Greeks, and Cultural Contacts; 2. Mesopotamia (the Sumero-Babylonian-Assyrian Educational System); 3. Anatolia (Hittites, Hurrians, Luwians, and Others); 4. Egypt; 5. The Levant (Ugarit and Other Canaanites; Israel); 6. India; 7. Iranians (Elamites, Avestans, Medes, Persians) and Scythians; 8. Cyprus; FURTHER READING; CHAPTER 2: The Earliest Greek Systems of Education CHAPTER 7: Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy1. Cicero on the Relation between Philosophy and Rhetoric; 2. Cicero on Philosophical Education; 3. The Roman Imperial Era; 4. Pre-philosophical Education: Cornutus and Seneca; 5. Philosophy: Logic, Physics, Ethics; 6. The Role of Philosophy, the Goal of Life; REFERENCES; PART III: The Spread and Development of Greek Schooling in the Hellenistic Era; CHAPTER 8: Learning to Read and Write; 1. Ordo Docendi; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 9: School Structures, Apparatus, and Materials; 1. Primary Education in the Archaic and Classical Periods; 2. Roman Schools 1. General Issues: Minoans, Mycenaeans, and the Earliest "Greeks"2. Minoans and Mycenaeans; 3. Archaic Greece; 4. Literacy and Early Greek "Schools"--Grammatistês, kitharistês, paidotribês; 5. Conclusion: The Origins of "Classical" Education; REFERENCES; FURTHER READING; PART II: Accounts of Systems; CHAPTER 3: Sophistic Method and Practice; 1. Problems with the Sophists; 2. Plato's Sophists; 3. The Sophists' Activities; FURTHER READING; CHAPTER 4: Socrates as Educator; 1. Imitation and Socratic Education; 2. How Literate Was Socratic Education?; 3. The Socratic Sound 4. Socratic Natural Science5. Politics and the Education of Desire; FURTHER READING; CHAPTER 5: Spartan Education; 1. Overview: From Classical Sparta to Roman Times. Ancient Sources-and Modern Approaches; 2. Classical Sparta: Imposing a Character on the Young; 3. The Education of Girls; 4. Spartan Education: A Struggle between "Male" and "Female" Influences?; 5. Military Training for Boys?; Appendix: Spartan Education under the Roman Empire; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6: Athens; 1. Traditional Education; 2. Participation; 3. Athletics and Music; 4. Letters; REFERENCES