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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Autore principale: Cribiore, Raffaella (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2005.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hhp10
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Riassunto: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.
Descrizione del documento:Originally published: 2001.
Descrizione fisica:1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index.
ISBN:9781400844418
140084441X
0691122520
9780691122526
0691002649
9780691002644