Gymnastics of the mind : Greek education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt /
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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2005.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hhp10 |
| Summary: | 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 the curriculum comprised. Raffaella Cribiore draws on over 400 papyri, ostraca (sherds of pottery or slices of limestone), and tablets that feature everything from exercises involving letters of the alphabet through rhetorical compositions that represented the work of advanced students. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: 2001. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400844418 140084441X 0691122520 9780691122526 0691002649 9780691002644 |