Greek and Roman education
Subtitle: a sourcebook
By: Mark Joyal, Iain McDougall, John Yardley.
Contributors: McDougall, Iain.; Yardley, John, 1942-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780415338066; 9780415338073
Subjects: Education, Greek; Education -- Rome
Description: From the earliest sources until the end of antiquity and beginning of the Middle Ages, this title presents the most important texts on Greek and Roman education, both literary and documentary, and explores the complex nature and development of Greek and Roman education.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early Greece to ca. 500 b.c; title: Sparta; title: Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.; title: The sophists, Socrates, and the fifth-century enlightenment; title: Fourth-century theory and practice: Isocrates, Plato and Aristotle; title: The Hellenistic period (ca. 335-30 B.C.); title: Early Rome to ca. 100 B.C.; title: Reading, writing and literary study: late Roman Republic and Empire; title: Teaching and learning the liberal arts and rhetoric: Cicero to Quintilian; title: Pagans and Christians: from the second century A.D. to the end of Antiquity.