Beschreibung:
From the earliest sources until the end of antiquity and beginning of the Middle Ages, this book 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.
Introduction 1. Early Greece to ca. 500 B.C. 2. Sparta 3. Athens in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C. 4. The Sophists, Socrates, and the Fifth-Century Enlightenment 5. Fourth-Century Theory and Practice: Isocrates, Plato and Aristotle 6. The Hellenistic Period (ca. 335-30 B.C.) 7. Early Rome to ca. 100 B.C. 8. Reading, Writing and Literary Study: Late Roman Republic and Empire 9. Teaching and Learning the Liberal Arts and Rhetoric: Cicero to Quintilian 10. Pagans and Christians: From the Second Century A.D. to the End of Antiquity. Bibliography. General index. Index of passages