A Companion to Ancient Education (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

Brand: Wiley

Author: Bloomer, W. Martin

Edition: 1

Number Of Pages: 528

EAN: 9781444337532

Release Date: 08-09-2015

Languages: English

Binding: Hardcover

Package Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.0 x 1.2 inches

Details: 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