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Gymnastics of the Mind Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt

Author/creator	Cribiore, Raffaella Editor
Other author	American Council of Learned Societies.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Princeton : Princeton University Press Ewing : California Princeton Fulfillment Services [Distributor]
Description	288 p. ill 24.000 x 016.200 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book
Subjects	Education, Greek Education--History. Egypt--Civilization.

Summary	Annotation "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.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2001021986
ISBN	9780691002644
ISBN	0691002649 (Trade Cloth) Out of Print
Standard identifier#	9780691002644
Stock number	00021620

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