A Companion to Ancient Education

Notes on Contributors viii
 
Introduction 1
W. Martin Bloomer
 
PART I Literary and Moral Education in Archaic and Classical Greece 5
 
1 Origins and Relations to the Near East 7
Mark Griffith
 
2 The Earliest Greek Systems of Education 26
Mark Griffith
 
PART II Accounts of Systems 61
 
3 Sophistic Method and Practice 63
David Wolfsdorf
 
4 Socrates as Educator 77
David K. O'Connor
 
5 Spartan Education 90
Anton Powell
 
6 Athens 112
David M. Pritchard
 
7 Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy 123
Gretchen Reydams?-Schils
 
PART III The Spread and Development of Greek Schooling in the Hellenistic Era 135
 
8 Learning to Read and Write 137
William A. Johnson
 
9 School Structures, Apparatus, and Materials 149
Raffaella Cribiore
 
10 The Progymnasmata and Progymnasmatic Theory in Imperial Greek Education 160
Robert J. Penella
 
11 The Ephebeia in the Hellenistic Period 172
Nigel M. Kennell
 
12 Corporal Punishment in the Ancient School 184
W. Martin Bloomer
 
PART IV The Roman Transformation 199
 
13 Etruscan and Italic Literacy and the Case of Rome 201
Daniele F. Maras
 
14 Schools, Teachers, and Patrons in Mid?-Republican Rome 226
Enrica Sciarrino
 
15 The Education of the Ciceros 240
Susan Treggiari
 
16 Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Educational Ideals and Methods: The Greek World 252
Elzbieta Szabat
 
17 Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Educational Ideals and Methods: The Western Empire 267
Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
 
PART V Theories and Themes of Education 279
 
18 The Persistence of Ancient Education 281
Robin Barrow
 
19 The Education of Women in Ancient Rome 292
Emily A. Hemelrijk
 
20 The Education of Women in Ancient Greece 305
Aleksander Wolicki
 
21 Isocrates 321
James R. Muir
 
22 Plutarch 335
Sophia A. Xenophontos
 
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W. Martin Bloomer is Professor of Classics and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Literature at the University of Notre Dame. His publications include Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility (1993), Latinity and Literary Society at Rome (1997), The Contest of Language (2005), and The School of Rome (2011).