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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 (shards 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." "Gymnastics of the Mind will be an indispensable resource to students and scholars of the ancient world and of the history of education."--BOOK JACKET.
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Greek Education, Civilization, History, Gregos (educação;história), Klassieke oudheid, Ancient Education, Histoire, Onderwijs, Éducation grecque, Civilisation, Helenismo, Geschiedbronnen, Griechen, Egyptian Education, Bildungswesen, Erziehung, Education, greek, Education, history, Egypt, civilizationShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
2005, Princeton University Press
in English
1306136660 9781306136662
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Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
2005, Princeton University Press
in English
140084441X 9781400844418
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Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
January 24, 2005, Princeton University Press
Paperback
in English
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0691122520 9780691122526
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Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt.
October 1, 2001, Princeton University Press
Hardcover
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0691002649 9780691002644
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"AN IMAGE that captures the substance of an education in letters in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds is found in a dialogue of the second-century satirist Lucian."
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