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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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Cribiore, Raffaella (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2005.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hhp10
جدول المحتويات:
  • 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.