Gymnastics of the Mind : Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Annotation "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 fun...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton : Ewing :
Princeton University Press ; California Princeton Fulfillment Services Distributor,
Sept. 2001
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Annotation "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 (shards 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. The exceptional wealth of surviving source material renders Egypt an ideal space of reference. The book makes excursions beyond Egypt as well, particularly in the Greek East, by examining the letters of the Antiochene Libanius that are concerned with education." "Gymnastics of the Mind will be an indispensable resource to students and scholars of the ancient world and of the history of education."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages) illustrations |
| Audience: | College Audience Princeton University Press |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780691002644 0691002649 9781400844418 140084441X |
