A Companion to Ancient Education

1. Origins and Relations to the Near East
2. The Earliest Greek Systems of Education
3. Sophistic Method and Practice
4. Socrates as Educator
5. Spartan Education
6. Athens
7. Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy
8. Learning to Read and Write
9. School Structures, Apparatus, and Materials
10. The Progymnasmata and Progymnasmatic Theory in Imperial Greek Education
11. The Ephebeia in the Hellenistic Period
12. Corporal Punishment in the Ancient School
13. Etruscan and Italic Literacy and the Case of Rome
14. Schools, Teachers, and Patrons in Mid‐Republican Rome
15. The Education of the Ciceros
16. Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Educational Ideals and Methods: The Greek World
17. Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Educational Ideals and Methods: The Western Empire
18. The Persistence of Ancient Education
19. The Education of Women in Ancient Rome
20. The Education of Women in Ancient Greece
21. Isocrates
22. Plutarch
23. Quintilian on Education
24. Challenges to Classical Education in Late Antiquity: The Case of Augustine of Hippo
25. Education in the Visual Arts
26. Mathematics Education
27. Musical Education in Greece and Rome
28. Medicine
29. Sport and Education in Ancient Greece and Rome
30. Roman Legal Education
31. Toys and Games
32. Slaves
33. Masters and Apprentices
34. Military Training

A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices and theories in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Reflects the latest research findings and presents new historical syntheses of the rise, spread, and purposes of ancient education in ancient Greece and Rome Offers comprehensive coverage of the main periods, crises, and developments of ancient education along with historical sketches of various educational methods and the diffusion of education throughout the ancient world Covers both liberal and illiberal (non-elite) education during antiquity Addresses the material practice and material realities of education, and the primary thinkers during antiquity through to late antiquity