Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds (Cambridge Classical Studies)
Cambridge University Press, 1/7/1999
EAN 9780521584661, ISBN10: 0521584663
Hardcover, 384 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
This book offers an assessment of the content, structures and significance of education in Greek and Roman society. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, including the first systematic comparison of literary sources with the papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, Teresa Morgan shows how education developed from a loose repertoire of practices in classical Greece into a coherent system spanning the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. She examines the teaching of literature, grammar and rhetoric across a range of social groups and proposes a model of how the system was able both to maintain its coherence and to accommodate pupils' widely different backgrounds, needs and expectations. In addition Dr Morgan explores Hellenistic and Roman theories of cognitive development, showing how educationalists claimed to turn the raw material of humanity into good citizens and leaders of society.
List of tables
Preface
Map of Egypt
1. Introduction
setting the scene
2. Structures of enkyklios paideia
3. Literature I
the writing on the wall, and elsewhere
4. Literature II
maxims and morals
5. Grammar and the power of language
6. Rhetoric
art and articulation
7. All in the mind
images of cognitive development
Conclusion
Appendix I
Egyptian roots of Hellenistic education
Appendix II
index of papyri in school-hands
Tables
Bibliography
Index of names
General index.