A Companion to Ancient Education

W. Martin Bloomer is Professor of Classics and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Literature at the University of Notre Dame. His publications include Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility (1993), Latinity and Literary Society at Rome (1997), The Contest of Language (2005), and The School of Rome (2011).

Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1W. Martin BloomerPART I Literary and Moral Education in Archaic and Classical Greece 51 Origins and Relations to the Near East 7Mark Griffith2 The Earliest Greek Systems of Education 26Mark GriffithPART II Accounts of Systems 613 Sophistic Method and Practice 63David Wolfsdorf4 Socrates as Educator 77David K. O'Connor5 Spartan Education 90Anton Powell6 Athens 112David M. Pritchard7 Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy 123Gretchen Reydams?-SchilsPART III The Spread and Development of Greek Schooling in the Hellenistic Era 1358 Learning to Read and Write 137William A. Johnson9 School Structures, Apparatus, and Materials 149Raffaella Cribiore10 The Progymnasmata and Progymnasmatic Theory in Imperial Greek Education 160Robert J. Penella11 The Ephebeia in the Hellenistic Period 172Nigel M. Kennell12 Corporal Punishment in the Ancient School 184W. Martin BloomerPART IV The Roman Transformation 19913 Etruscan and Italic Literacy and the Case of Rome 201Daniele F. Maras14 Schools, Teachers, and Patrons in Mid?-Republican Rome 226Enrica Sciarrino15 The Education of the Ciceros 240Susan Treggiari16 Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Educational Ideals and Methods: The Greek World 252Elzbieta Szabat17 Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Educational Ideals and Methods: The Western Empire 267Ilaria L. E. RamelliPART V Theories and Themes of Education 27918 The Persistence of Ancient Education 281Robin Barrow19 The Education of Women in Ancient Rome 292Emily A. Hemelrijk20 The Education of Women in Ancient Greece 305Aleksander Wolicki21 Isocrates 321James R. Muir22 Plutarch 335Sophia A. Xenophontos23 Quintilian on Education 347W. Martin Bloomer24 Challenges to Classical Education in Late Antiquity: The Case of Augustine of Hippo 358Hildegund MüllerPART VI Non?-Literary and Non?-Elite Education 37325 Education in the Visual Arts 375J. J. Pollitt26 Mathematics Education 387Nathan Sidoli27 Musical Education in Greece and Rome 401Stefan Hagel and Tosca Lynch28 Medicine 413Herbert Bannert29 Sport and Education in Ancient Greece and Rome 430Sarah C. Murray30 Roman Legal Education 444Andrew M. Riggsby31 Toys and Games 452Leslie J. Shumka32 Slaves 464Kelly L. Wrenhaven33 Masters and Apprentices 474Christian Laes34 Military Training 483Preston BannardIndex 496