Education in ancient Rome : from the elder Cato to the younger Pliny / Stanley F. Bonner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)1977.Description: xii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
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Contents:
1. Early Roman upbringing -- 2. Education within the family ; Parents and relatives -- 3. Education within the family ; Private tutors from distant lands -- 4. Primary schools and 'pedagogues' -- 5. Schools of grammar and literatures -- 6. The rhetoric schools and their critics -- 7. Cicero and the ideal of oratorical education -- 8. The Roman student abroad -- 9. Education in a decadent society -- Part 2. Conditions of teaching -- 10. The problem of accommodation -- 11. Equipment organization ; discipline -- 12. The hazards of a fee-paying system ; municipal and State appointments -- Part 3. The standard teaching programme -- 13. Primary education : reading, writing, and reckoning -- 14. The grammatical syllabus ; The elements of metre and the parts of speech -- 15. The grammatical syllabus ; Correctness in speech and writing -- 16. Study of the poets ; Reading aloud and reciting -- 17. Study of the poets ; From reading to commentary -- 18. Progress into rhetoric : preliminary exercises -- 19. Declamations on historical themes -- 20. Learning the art of the advocate -- 21. Declamation as a preparation for the lawcourts -- Conclusion : a few lessons from the past.
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Part 1. The historical background -- 1. Early Roman upbringing -- 2. Education within the family ; Parents and relatives -- 3. Education within the family ; Private tutors from distant lands -- 4. Primary schools and 'pedagogues' -- 5. Schools of grammar and literatures -- 6. The rhetoric schools and their critics -- 7. Cicero and the ideal of oratorical education -- 8. The Roman student abroad -- 9. Education in a decadent society -- Part 2. Conditions of teaching -- 10. The problem of accommodation -- 11. Equipment organization ; discipline -- 12. The hazards of a fee-paying system ; municipal and State appointments -- Part 3. The standard teaching programme -- 13. Primary education : reading, writing, and reckoning -- 14. The grammatical syllabus ; The elements of metre and the parts of speech -- 15. The grammatical syllabus ; Correctness in speech and writing -- 16. Study of the poets ; Reading aloud and reciting -- 17. Study of the poets ; From reading to commentary -- 18. Progress into rhetoric : preliminary exercises -- 19. Declamations on historical themes -- 20. Learning the art of the advocate -- 21. Declamation as a preparation for the lawcourts -- Conclusion : a few lessons from the past.

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