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 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 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 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

This handbook offers a global view of the historical development of educational institutions, systems of schooling, ideas about education, and educational exper