Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 494 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-12252-6
Verlag: Princeton University Press
This book is at once a thorough study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. It describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned, and what the curriculum comprised. Raffaella Cribiore draws on over 400 papyri, ostraca (sherds of pottery or slices of limestone), and tablets that feature everything from exercises involving letters of the alphabet through rhetorical compositions that represented the work of advanced students. The exceptional wealth of surviving source material renders Egypt an ideal space of reference. The book makes excursions beyond Egypt as well, particularly in the Greek East, by examining the letters of the Antiochene Libanius that are concerned with education.The first part explores the conditions for teaching and learning, and the roles of teachers, parents, and students in education; the second vividly describes the progression from elementary to advanced education. Cribiore examines not only school exercises but also books and commentaries employed in education--an uncharted area of research. This allows the most comprehensive evaluation thus far of the three main stages of a liberal education, from the elementary teacher to the grammarian to the rhetorician. Also addressed, in unprecedented detail, are female education and the role of families in education. Gymnastics of the Mind will be an indispensable resource to students and scholars of the ancient world and of the history of education.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Hellenismus
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Abbreviations xiii
INTRODUCTION 1
PART ONE
CHAPTER 1: Models of Schooling 15
CHAPTER 2: The Teachers and Their Burden 45
CHAPTER 3: Women and Education 74
CHAPTER 4: Parents and Students 102
PART TWO
CHAPTER 5: Tools of the Trade:Teachers ?Models,Books,and Writing Materials 127
CHAPTER 6: The First Circle 160
CHAPTER 7: The Teaching of the Grammarian:Content and Context 185
CHAPTER 8: Learning to Fly:Rhetoric and Imitation 220
CONCLUSION 245
Select Bibliography 253
Index 265
Index Locorum 269
