Teresa Morgan

Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Assessment of the content, structures and significance of education in Greek and Roman society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780521040938
• ISBN-10: 0521040930
• Artikelnr.: 23029416

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.