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<p>Notes on Contributors viii</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /><i>W. Martin Bloomer</i></p> <p><b>PART I Literary and Moral Education in Archaic and Classical Greece 5</b></p> <p>1 Origins and Relations to the Near East 7<br /><i>Mark Griffith</i></p> <p>2 The Earliest Greek Systems of Education 26<br /><i>Mark Griffith</i></p> <p><b>PART II Accounts of Systems 61</b></p> <p>3 Sophistic Method and Practice 63<br /><i>David Wolfsdorf</i></p> <p>4 Socrates as Educator 77<br /><i>David K. O’Connor</i></p> <p>5 Spartan Education 90<br /><i>Anton Powell</i></p> <p>6 Athens 112<br /><i>David M. Pritchard</i></p> <p>7 Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy 123<br /><i>Gretchen Reydams</i><i>?-</i><i>Schils</i></p> <p><b>PART III The Spread and Development of Greek Schooling in the Hellenistic Era 135</b></p> <p>8 Learning to Read and Write 137<br /><i>William A. Johnson</i></p> <p>9 School Structures, Apparatus, and Materials 149<br /><i>Raffaella Cribiore</i></p> <p>10 The Progymnasmata and Progymnasmatic Theory in Imperial Greek Education 160<br /><i>Robert J. Penella</i></p> <p>11 The Ephebeia in the Hellenistic Period 172<br /><i>Nigel M. Kennell</i></p> <p>12 Corporal Punishment in the Ancient School 184<br /><i>W. Martin Bloomer</i></p> <p><b>PART IV The Roman Transformation 199</b></p> <p>13 Etruscan and Italic Literacy and the Case of Rome 201<br /><i>Daniele F. Maras</i></p> <p>14 Schools, Teachers, and Patrons in Mid?-Republican Rome 226<br /><i>Enrica Sciarrino</i></p> <p>15 The Education of the Ciceros 240<br /><i>Susan Treggiari</i></p> <p>16 Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Educational Ideals and Methods: The Greek World 252<br /><i>Elzbieta Szabat</i></p> <p>17 Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Educational Ideals and Methods: The Western Empire 267<br /><i>Ilaria L. E. Ramelli</i></p> <p><b>PART V Theories and Themes of Education 279</b></p> <p>18 The Persistence of Ancient Education 281<br /><i>Robin Barrow</i></p> <p>19 The Education of Women in Ancient Rome 292<br /><i>Emily A. Hemelrijk</i></p> <p>20 The Education of Women in Ancient Greece 305<br /><i>Aleksander Wolicki </i></p> <p>21 Isocrates 321<br /><i>James R. Muir</i></p> <p>22 Plutarch 335<br /><i>Sophia A. Xenophontos</i></p> <p>23 Quintilian on Education 347<br /><i>W. Martin Bloomer</i></p> <p>24 Challenges to Classical Education in Late Antiquity: The Case of Augustine of Hippo 358<br /><i>Hildegund Müller</i></p> <p><b>PART VI Non</b><b>?-</b><b>Literary and Non</b><b>?-</b><b>Elite Education 373</b></p> <p>25 Education in the Visual Arts 375<br /><i>J. J. Pollitt</i></p> <p>26 Mathematics Education 387<br /><i>Nathan Sidoli</i></p> <p>27 Musical Education in Greece and Rome 401<br /><i>Stefan Hagel and Tosca Lynch</i></p> <p>28 Medicine 413<br /><i>Herbert Bannert</i></p> <p>29 Sport and Education in Ancient Greece and Rome 430<br /><i>Sarah C. Murray</i></p> <p>30 Roman Legal Education 444<br /><i>Andrew M. Riggsby</i></p> <p>31 Toys and Games 452<br /><i>Leslie J. Shumka</i></p> <p>32 Slaves 464<br /><i>Kelly L. Wrenhaven</i></p> <p>33 Masters and Apprentices 474<br /><i>Christian Laes</i></p> <p>34 Military Training 483<br /><i>Preston Bannard</i></p> <p>Index 496</p>

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

With rigorous instruction in topics ranging from grammar, music, and poetry to numeracy and religious ritual, formal systems of education developed for citizen classes during Greek and Roman antiquity still resonate in the twenty-first-century world. A Companion to Ancient Education presents the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices and theories in the Greek and Roman world from the seventh century BCE to the fifth century CE. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars in the field, essays trace the roots of classical education while utilizing the latest research findings and applying innovative historical syntheses to such topics as the development of educational institutions, citizen and non-citizen training, women’s education, materials and methods for instruction, apprentice and craft learning, and more. Offering thought-provoking reassessments of the breadth and purposes of education in ancient society, readings also shed important new light on the complexity of the ancient phenomena of education in Greece and Rome—while also revealing the debts and affinities of educational practice to those of other ancient civilizations. Rooted in the latest scholarship, A Companion to Ancient Education sets a new standard in our understanding and appreciation of teaching and learning in Greco-Roman society.

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