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Record Nr.

UNISA996358750403316

Titolo

A companion to ancient education / / edited by W. Martin Bloomer ; contributors, Preston Bannard [and thirty two others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-119-02389-0

1-119-02393-9

1-118-99741-7

1-119-02391-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (520 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

Disciplina

370.938

Soggetti

Education, Greek

Education - Rome

Education, Medieval

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Literary and moral education in archaic and classical Greece -- Part II. Accounts of systems -- Part III. The spread and development of Greek schooling in the Hellenistic Era -- Part IV. The Roman transformation -- Part V. Theories and themes of education -- Part VI. Non-literary and non-elite education.

Sommario/riassunto

A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices and theories in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.   Reflects the latest research findings and presents new historical syntheses of the rise, spread, and purposes of ancient education in ancient Greece and Rome Offers comprehensive coverage of the main periods, crises, and developments of ancient education along with historical sketches of various educational methods and the diffusion of educ