Gymnastics of the Mind
Subtitle: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 24, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780691122526
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; Ancient Egypt; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Classics; Archaeology and Ancient History; Education; History / Ancient / Egypt; Ancient - Egypt; Ancient - Greece
First sentence: AN IMAGE that captures the substance of an education in letters in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds is found in a dialogue of the second-century satirist Lucian.