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Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
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Description for Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Paperback. Presents a 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. This book describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned, and what the curriculum comprised. Editor(s): Cribiore, Raffaella. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691122526
SKU
V9780691122526
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About Cribore
Raffaella Cribioreis Associate Curator of Papyri and Adjunct Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. She is the author of "Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt".
Reviews for Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Winner of the 2004 C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association "I have learned a tremendous amount from this book... [It] is eminently accessible not only to all varieties of classicists but also to nonclassicists with an interest in educational practices. For specialists in ancient education, the largely unprecedented detail of Cribiore's description and analysis and the numerous new ... Read more