Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds

Informationen zum Autor TERESA MORGAN is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Oriel College, Oxford, and a self-supporting priest in the parish of Littlemore. She is the author of a number of academic and popular books. Klappentext Assessment of the content, structures and significance of education in Greek and Roman society. Zusammenfassung An interpretation of Hellenistic and Roman education. Teresa Morgan draws on evidence from all over the classical world! including papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt! to re-examine one of the institutions which made that world an entity! and which was one of its most influential legacies to the west. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; Preface; Map of Egypt; 1. Introduction: setting the scene; 2. Structures of enkyklios paideia; 3. Literature I: the writing on the wall, and elsewhere; 4. Literature II: maxims and morals; 5. Grammar and the power of language; 6. Rhetoric: art and articulation; 7. All in the mind: images of cognitive development; Conclusion; Appendix I: Egyptian roots of Hellenistic education; Appendix II: index of papyri in school-hands; Tables; Bibliography; Index of names; General index.

Product details

• Authors: Teresa Morgan, Teresa (University of Oxford) Morgan, Morgan Teresa
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.08.2007
• EAN: 9780521040938
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04093-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; EDUCATION / General, Education, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, General & world history, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy