Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1W. Martin Bloomer
PART I Literary and Moral Education in Archaic and Classical Greece 5
1 Origins and Relations to the Near East 7Mark Griffith
2 The Earliest Greek Systems of Education 26Mark Griffith
PART II Accounts of Systems 61
3 Sophistic Method and Practice 63David Wolfsdorf
4 Socrates as Educator 77David K. O’Connor
5 Spartan Education 90Anton Powell
6 Athens 112David M. Pritchard
7 Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy 123Gretchen Reydams-Schils
PART III The Spread and Development of Greek Schooling in the Hellenistic Era 135
8 Learning to Read and Write 137William A. Johnson
9 School Structures, Apparatus, and Materials 149Raffaella Cribiore
10 The Progymnasmata and Progymnasmatic Theory in Imperial Greek Education 160Robert J. Penella
11 The Ephebeia in the Hellenistic Period 172Nigel M. Kennell
12 Corporal Punishment in the Ancient School 184W. Martin Bloomer
PART IV The Roman Transformation 199
13 Etruscan and Italic Literacy and the Case of Rome 201Daniele F. Maras
14 Schools, Teachers, and Patrons in Mid-Republican Rome 226Enrica Sciarrino
15 The Education of the Ciceros 240Susan Treggiari
16 Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Educational Ideals and Methods: The Greek World 252Elzbieta Szabat
17 Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Educational Ideals and Methods: The Western Empire 267Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
PART V Theories and Themes of Education 279
18 The Persistence of Ancient Education 281Robin Barrow
19 The Education of Women in Ancient Rome 292Emily A. Hemelrijk
20 The Education of Women in Ancient Greece 305Aleksander Wolicki
21 Isocrates 321James R. Muir
22 Plutarch 335Sophia A. Xenophontos
23 Quintilian on Education 347W. Martin Bloomer
24 Challenges to Classical Education in Late Antiquity: The Case of Augustine of Hippo 358Hildegund Müller
PART VI Non-Literary and Non-Elite Education 373
25 Education in the Visual Arts 375J. J. Pollitt
26 Mathematics Education 387Nathan Sidoli
27 Musical Education in Greece and Rome 401Stefan Hagel and Tosca Lynch
28 Medicine 413Herbert Bannert
29 Sport and Education in Ancient Greece and Rome 430Sarah C. Murray
30 Roman Legal Education 444Andrew M. Riggsby
31 Toys and Games 452Leslie J. Shumka
32 Slaves 464Kelly L. Wrenhaven
33 Masters and Apprentices 474Christian Laes
34 Military Training 483Preston Bannard
Index 496