CLAS 220: Education in Antiquity
compiled by John Porter, University of Saskatchewan

Terms, Relevant Links Elsewhere on the WWW, and Bibliography for Course Lectures on Greek and Roman Education.

NOTE: For the most part, links on this page are to relevant material on other WWW sites.
Please do not assume that the material is mine unless the page to which you are directed is clearly marked as being part of this WWW site.

Terms

(Those terms marked with an asterisk are of particular importance.)

• Greek

  For links to specific images to be discussed in class, visit the *Images of Greek Education page.

  • Amphidromia
    • Dekatê
    • Sublatus
  • *Grammatistes
    • *Stylus / Stilus
    • Ostrakon
      • Ostracism
    • Papyrus
    • Parchment/Vellum
    • Aristophanes, Knights 180ff.
  • *Kitharistes
    • *Aulos
      • Ionians
      • Plato, Republic 398c-401a
      • Plato, Republic 411a-b
      • Aristophanes, Women at the Thesmophoria 130ff.
    • *Chelys
      • Homeric Hymn IV: "To Hermes"
          [N.B. You will have to scroll down to the fourth hymn, or search for the string "To Hermes".]
    • *Barbitos / Barbiton
    • *Kithara (Phorminx)
      • Aristophanes, Wasps 959
    • Skolia
    • Aristophanes, Clouds 1353ff.
  • *Paidotribes
  • *Palaistra (vs. *Gymnasion)
    • Herodotus 6.27
    • Pausanias 6.9.6-8
    • Aristophanes, Clouds 961ff.
    • Plato, Charmides 153a-155e
    • Plato, Lysis
  • *Paidagogos
    • Themistocles (Herodotus 8.75)
    • Stobaeus, Anthology 2.31.121 ("Thus Pericles once remarked, on seeing a slave fall from a tree and break his leg, 'There's a new paidagogos in the making.'")
      • Demodocus (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8)
      • Tiresias
      • Hephaestus
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown 258 (where the word translated "school-room" actually indicates the room where the paidagogoi sat)
    • for a glimpse of the paidagogos carrying out his duties, see the conclusion of Plato's Lysis
  • Sophists
  • Plato, *Academy (Akademos/Hekademos)
    • J. Travlos, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Athens 42-51
  • Aristotle, *Lyceum
    • Peripatos
    • J. Travlos, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Athens 345-47
  • Isocrates
  • Women
    • Atalanta
    • Dorian
    • Xenophon, Oeconomicus 7.5
    • Xenophon, Oeconomicus 9.10
    • Isocrates, Antidosis 287

• Roman
  • Petronius, Satyricon 58
  • *Litterator / Magister
    • *Ludus (cf. Greek scholê)
  • *Grammaticus
  • *Rhetor
    • *Suasoriae
    • *Controversiae

• Discipline
  • Heracles and Linos
  • *Narthex
  • Herodas, Mime 3: "The Schoolmaster"

• Miscellaneous
  • Astragalos (pl. -oi)
    • Plato, Lysis 206e

Links to Relevant Sites Elsewhere on the WWW

• Athenian Education
• Schools and Teachers
• Materials for the Study of Ancient Sparta
• Infans (excerpt from William Smith's A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities)
• The Library of Alexandria

Bibliography

For a list of journal abbreviations and call numbers, see the
Journals Relating to Classics in the University of Saskatchewan Libraries page.

• Achtemeier, P.J. "Omne verbum sonat: The New Testament and the Oral Environment of Late Western Antiquity," JBL 109 (1990) 3-27.
• Bagnall, R.S. Early Christian Books in Egypt. Princeton, 2009.
• Balogh, J. "Voces Paginarum," Philologus 82 (1927) 84-109 and 202-40.
• Barclay, W. Educational Ideals in the Ancient World. London, 1959.
• Barrow, R. Greek And Roman Education. Basingstoke, 1976.
• Beck, F.A.G. Album of Greek Education. Sydney, 1975.
• Blanck, H. Das Buch in der Antike. Munich, 1992.
• Bloomer, W.M. "Schooling in Persona: Imagination and Subordination in Roman Education," ClAnt 16 (1997) 57-78.
• Blum, R. Kallimachus: The Alexandrian Library and the Origins of Modern Bibliography. Madison, 1991.
• Bonnard, J.-B. Le Complexe de Zeus. Représentations de la paternité en Grèce ancienne. Paris, 2004.
• Bonner, S.F. Education in Ancient Rome: From The Elder Cato To The Younger Pliny. Berkeley, 1977.
• Booth, A.D. "Douris' cup and the stages of schooling in classical Athens," EMC 29 (1985) 274-280.
• Bowman, A.K., and G. Woolf, eds. Literacy and Power in the Ancient World. Cambridge, 1994.
• Bradley, K.R. "Remarriage and the structure of the upper-class Roman family," in B. Rawson, ed., Marriage, divorce, and children in ancient Rome (Oxford, 1991)
• Brenk, F.E. "School and Literature. The Gymnasia at Athens in the First Century," in J.A.F. Delgado, Pordoming, F., and Stramaglia, A., eds., Escuela y Literatura en Grecia Antigua (Cassino, 2007) 333-48.
• Bundrick, S. Music and Image in Classical Athens. Cambridge, 2005.
• Casson, L. Libraries in the Ancient World. New Haven, 2001.
• Clarke, M.L. Higher Education in the Ancient World. London, 1971.
• Clarysse, W., and D.J. Thompson. Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt, Volume 1: Population Registers. Cambridge, 2006.
• Clarysse, W., and D.J. Thompson. Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt, Volume 2: Historical Studies. Cambridge, 2006.
• Cole, S.G. "Could Greek Women Read and Write?" in H.P. Foley, ed., Reflections of Women in Antiquity (New York, 1981) 219-45.
• Corbier, M. Adoption et Fosterage. Paris, 1999.
• Corbier, M. "Divorce and adoption as Roman familial strategies," in B. Rawson, ed., Marriage, divorce, and children in ancient Rome (Oxford, 1991)
• Cribiore, R. Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt. Atlanta, 1997.
• Cribiore, R. "A School Tablet: A List of Names and Numbers," BASP 35 (1998) 145-51.
• Dasen, V. Jumeaux, Jumelles dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine. Zurich, 2005.
• Dasen, V., ed. Naissance et petite enfance dans l'Antiquité. Fribourg, 2004.
• Davidson, T. The Education of the Greek People and its Influence on Civilization. New York, 1894.
• Debut, J. "De l'usage des listes de mots comme fondement de la pédagogie dans l'antiquité," REA 85 (1983) 261-74.
• Delorme, J. Gymnasion: Études sur les monuments consacrés à l'éducation en Grèce. Paris, 1960.
• Derderian, K. Leaving Words to Remember: Greek Mourning and the Advent of Literacy. Leiden, Boston, and Cologne, 2001.
• Dionisotti, A.C. "From Ausonius' Schooldays? A School-Book and its Relatives," JRS 72 (1982) 83-125.
• Dixon, S. "The sentimental ideal of the Roman family," in B. Rawson, ed., Marriage, divorce, and children in ancient Rome (Oxford, 1991)
• Ducat, J. Spartan Education. Youth and Society in the Classical Period. Swansea, 2006.
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• Euben, P.J. Corrupting Youth. Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theory. Princeton, 1998.
• Eyben, E. Restless Youth in Ancient Rome. London, 1993.
• Eyben, E. "Fathers and sons," in B. Rawson, ed., Marriage, divorce, and children in ancient Rome (Oxford, 1991)
• Forbes, C.A. "Expanded Uses of the Greek Gymnasium," CP 40 (1945) 32-42.
• Forbes, C.A. Greek Physical Education. New York, 1929.
• Gilliard, F. "More Silent Reading in Antiquity: Non Omne Verbum Sonabat," JBL 112 (1993) 689-94.
• Glazebrook, A. "Reading Women: Book Rolls on Attic Vases," Mouseion 5 (2005) 1-46.
• Golden, M. "Change or Continuity? Children and Childhood in Hellenistic Historiography," in M. Golden and P. Toohey, eds., Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism, Periodization, and the Ancient World (London, 1997) 176-91.
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• Golden, M. "A Decade of Demography. Recent Trends in the Study of Greek and Roman Populations," in P. Flensted-Jensen, T.H. Nielsen, and L. Rubinstein, eds., Polis and Politics: Studies in Ancient Greek History (Copenhagen, 2000) 23-40.
• Golden, M. Children And Childhood In Classical Athens. Baltimore, 1990.
• Golden, M. "Mortality, Mourning, and Mothers," in V. Dasen, ed., Naissance et petite enfance dans l'Antiquité (Göttingen, 2004) 145-57.
• Gwynn, A. Roman Education from Cicero to Quintilian. Oxford, 1926.
• Hallett, J.P. Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family. Princeton, 1984.
• Hansen, M.H. The Shotgun Method: The Demography of the Ancient Greek City-State Culture. Ê Columbia and London: ÊUniversity of Missouri Press, 2006.
• Harlow, M. and R. Laurence. Growing up and Growing Old in Ancient Rome. A Life Course Approach. New York, 2002.
• Harris, M.H. History of Libraries in the Western World. Metuchen [N.J.], 1995.
• Harris, W.V. Ancient Literacy. Cambridge [Mass.], 1989.
• Hatzivassiliou, E. "The Attic Phormiskos: Problems of Origin and Function," BICS 45 (2001) 113-48.
• Hemelrijk, E.A. Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Elite from Cornelia to Julia Domna. London and New York, 1999.
• Hendrickson, G.L. "Ancient Reading," CJ 25 (1929) 192-96.
• Hibler, R.W. Life and Learning in Ancient Athens. Lanham, 1988.
• Hillbom, N. Minoan Games and Game Boards. Lund, 2005.
• Hock, R.F., and E.N. O'Neil. The Chreia in Ancient Rhetoric. Volume I: The Progymnasmata. Atlanta, 1986.
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• Immerwahr, H.R. "Book Roles on Attic Vases," in C. Henderson, ed., Classical, Mediaeval, and Renaissance Studies in Honor of B.L. Ullman (Rome, 1964), vol. 1, 17-48.
• Immerwahr, H.R. "More Book Roles on Attic Vases," AntK 16 (1973) 143-47.
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