Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt

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Автор:Raffaella Cribiore

Название: Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt

Издательство: Princeton University Press

Год: 2005

Формат: pdf

Размер: 8.78 MB

Язык: английский

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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. 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.