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A Companion to Ancient Education
Contributor(s): Bloomer, W. Martin (Editor)
ISBN: 144433753X     ISBN-13: 9781444337532
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $202.30  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | History
- History | Ancient - General
Dewey: 370.938
LCCN: 2014050142
Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 9.6" W x 6.8" (2.05 lbs) 520 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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Publisher Description:

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