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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 (sherds 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. The first part explores the conditions for teaching and learning, and the roles of teachers, parents, and students in education; the second vividly describes the progression from elementary to advanced education. Cribiore examines not only school exercises but also books and commentaries employed in education--an uncharted area of research. This allows the most comprehensive evaluation thus far of the three main stages of a liberal education, from the elementary teacher to the grammarian to the rhetorician. Also addressed, in unprecedented detail, are female education and the role of families in education. Gymnastics of the Mind will be an indispensable resource to students and scholars of the ancient world and of the history of education.

Education, Greek --- Education grecque --- Education, Ancient --- -Ancient Greek education --- Greek education --- Education, Ancient. --- Éducation grecque --- Gregos (educação;história) --- Helenismo. --- Geschiedbronnen. --- -Education, Ancient --- Ancient Greek education --- Klassieke oudheid. --- Onderwijs. --- Histoire. --- Egypt --- Égypte --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Education --- History --- Histoire --- Egypte --- Education [Greek ] --- To 332 B.C. --- Education, Greek - Egypt --- Egypt - Civilization - To 332 BC

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Education [Greek ] --- Enseignement grecque --- Onderwijs [Greekse ] --- Education, Greek. --- Education --- Education grecque --- Education, Greek --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Ancient Greek education --- Greek education --- Greece --- Sparta (Extinct city) --- Education - Greece - Sparta (Extinct city)

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Greek literature --- Sophists (Greek philosophy) --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Littérature grecque --- Sophistes grecs --- Philosophie ancienne --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Histoire et critique --- Aspect politique --- Aspect social --- Education, Greek --- Ancient Greek education --- Greek education --- Education --- Education, Greek. --- Sophists (Greek philosophy). --- Littérature grecque --- Social aspects.

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Civic virtue and the type of education that produces publicly minded citizens became a topic of debate in American political discourse of the 1980s, as it once was among the intelligentsia of Classical Athens. Conservatives such as former National Endowment for the Humanities chairman William Bennett and his successor Lynn Cheney held up the Greek philosopher Aristotle as the model of a public-spirited, virtue-centered civic educator. But according to the contributors in this volume, a truer model, both in his own time and for ours, is Isocrates, one of the preeminent intellectual figures in Greece during the fourth century B.C. In this volume, ten leading scholars of Classics, rhetoric, and philosophy offer a pathfinding interdisciplinary study of Isocrates as a civic educator. Their essays are grouped into sections that investigate Isocrates' program in civic education in general (J. Ober, T. Poulakos) and in comparison to the Sophists (J. Poulakos, E. Haskins), Plato (D. Konstan, K. Morgan), Aristotle (D. Depew, E. Garver), and contemporary views about civic education (R. Hariman, M. Leff). The contributors show that Isocrates' rhetorical innovations carved out a deliberative process that attached moral choices to political questions and addressed ethical concerns as they could be realized concretely. His notions of civic education thus created perspectives that, unlike the elitism of Aristotle, could be used to strengthen democracy.

Education, Ancient. --- Education, Greek --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek --- History and criticism. --- Isocrates --- Political and social views. --- Athens (Greece) --- Intellectual life. --- Education, Ancient --- Ancient Greek education --- Greek education --- Education --- History and criticism --- History --- Isokrat --- Isokratēs --- Isocrate --- Yi-suo-ke-la-di --- Izokrates --- Ἰσοκράτης

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Education, Greek --- Initiation rites --- -Rites and ceremonies --- -Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Initiations --- Initiatory rites --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ancient Greek education --- Greek education --- Education --- Mythology --- -Mythology