In this volume Robin Barrow traces ancient education from the time of Homeric poems to the age of St. Augustine. Without minimising differences between educatio

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

This volume examines the idea of ancient education in a series of essays which span the archaic period to late antiquity. It calls into question the idea that e

This book offers an assessment of the content, structures and significance of education in Greek and Roman society. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, includi

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m