Gymnastics of the Mind : Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt /

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This book is at once a thorough study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. It describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned, and what...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cribiore, Raffaella (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Geschiedbronnen.
Klassieke oudheid.
Onderwijs.
Education, Greek.
Education, Egyptian.
Civilization.
EDUCATION > Reference.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Essays.
Éducation grecque > Égypte.
Éducation egyptienne.
Education, Greek > Egypt.
Egypte.
Egypt.
Égypte > Civilisation > Jusqu'à 332 av. J.-C.
Egypt > Civilization > To 332 B.C.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • pt. 1. chapter 1: Models of schooling; chapter 2: The teachers and their burden; chapter 3: Women and education; chapter 4: Parents and students
  • pt. 2. chapter 5: Tools of the trade, teachers' models, books, and writing materials; chapter 6: The first circle; chapter 7: The teaching of the grammarian, content and context; chapter 8: Learning to fly, rhetoric and imitation
  • CONCLUSION; Select Bibliography; Index; Index Locorum.

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