The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education and Culture in Ancient SpartaUniv of North Carolina Press, 9.11.2000 - 256 sivua The Gymnasium of Virtue is the first book devoted exclusively to the study of education in ancient Sparta, covering the period from the sixth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Nigel Kennell refutes the popular notion that classical Spartan education was a conservative amalgam of "primitive" customs not found elsewhere in Greece. He argues instead that later political and cultural movements made the system appear to be more distinctive than it actually had been, as a means of asserting Sparta's claim to be a unique society. Using epigraphical, literary, and archaeological evidence, Kennell describes the development of all aspects of Spartan education, including the age-grade system and physical contests that were integral to the system. He shows that Spartan education reached its apogee in the early Roman Empire, when Spartans sought to distinguish themselves from other Greeks. He attributes many of the changes instituted later in the period to one person--the philosopher Sphaerus the Borysthenite, who was an adviser to the revolutionary king Cleomenes III in the third century B.C. |
Sisältö
Age Grades of the Later Agg 39 | |
The Roman Agg 41 | |
Sickle dedication 30 | |
General view of the Orthia sanctuary from the east 50 | |
Foundations of the seating complex at the Orthia sanctuary 51 | |
Roman ruins northwest of the acropolis 58 | |
Theater below the acropolis 59 | |
Base for a statue of an altarvictor 78 | |
Archaizing sickle dedication 88 | |
The Inventor of the | |
From Artemis to the Dioscuri | |
Sickle dedication of Arexippus 127 | |
Conclusion | |
The Status of Amyclae | |
Bibliography | |
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The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education & Culture in Ancient Sparta Nigel M. Kennell Rajoitettu esikatselu - 1995 |
The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education & Culture in Ancient Sparta Nigel M. Kennell Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 1995 |
The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education and Culture in Ancient Sparta Nigel M. Kennell Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2007 |
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
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