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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2005.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hhp10 |
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.