La poésie et le grammairien

Lorsque l’on tente de mettre en perspective l’analyse des aspects et des problèmes concernant l’éducation dans l’Antiquité que Marrou a donnée dans son œuvre monumentale, l’on prend conscience avec une clarté d’autant plus grande que c’est un monument irremplaçable de par son exhaustivité, une œuvre avec laquelle nous allons devoir nous confronter pendant encore longtemps. Cependant, à la lumière de nouvelles découvertes et de nouvelles méthodes, l’on peut se concentrer sur certains aspects d..

A Homeric Writing Exercise and Reading Homer in School

The Hougthon Library of Harvard University preserves a papyrus fragment which wasformerly in the Semitic Museum. Since the fragment was found at Oxyrhynchus, it wasdescribed (but never edited) by Grenfell and Hunt in P.Oxy. IV 761, together with some other Homeric fragments

Menander the Poet or Menander Rhetor? An Encomium of Dioscoros Again

Arguing his theme of his own inadequacy to praise Romanus sufficiently, Dioscoros evokes for contrast the greatness of Menander: not the comedian but the rhetorician.</span

The Happy Farmer: A Student Composition from Roman Egypt

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Gymnastics of the mind : Greek education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt /

"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.Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-263) and indexes."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

Lucian, Libanius, and the Short Road to Rhetoric

Lucian's essay&nbsp;Teacher of Rhetoric&nbsp;implies the existence, already in the second century, of the abbreviated curriculum in rhetorical education to which Libanius testifies in the fourth.</span