Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt

Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt
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Publisher : American Society of Papyrologists
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105022375013
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Synopsis Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt by : Raffaella Cribiore

Papyri problems and exercises on papyri and ostraca, work books, and text books provide some of the richest evidence for the processes of education in the Roman world. This study examines how the skill of writing was taught, and how it was learned.

Gymnastics of the Mind

Gymnastics of the Mind
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780691122526
ISBN-13 : 0691122520
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Synopsis Gymnastics of the Mind by : Raffaella Cribiore

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 (sherds 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. The first part explores the conditions for teaching and learning, and the roles of teachers, parents, and students in education; the second vividly describes the progression from elementary to advanced education. Cribiore examines not only school exercises but also books and commentaries employed in education--an uncharted area of research. This allows the most comprehensive evaluation thus far of the three main stages of a liberal education, from the elementary teacher to the grammarian to the rhetorician. Also addressed, in unprecedented detail, are female education and the role of families in education. Gymnastics of the Mind will be an indispensable resource to students and scholars of the ancient world and of the history of education.

Paul in the Greco-Roman World: A Handbook

Paul in the Greco-Roman World: A Handbook
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 449
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ISBN-10 : 9780567656742
ISBN-13 : 0567656748
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Synopsis Paul in the Greco-Roman World: A Handbook by : J. Paul Sampley

This landmark handbook, written by distinguished Pauline scholars, and first published in 2003, remains the first and only work to offer lucid and insightful examinations of Paul and his world in such depth. Together the two volumes that constitute the handbook in its much revised form provide a comprehensive reference resource for new testament scholars looking to understand the classical world in which Paul lived and work. Each chapter provides an overview of a particular social convention, literary of rhetorical topos, social practice, or cultural mores of the world in which Paul and his audiences were at home. In addition, the sections use carefully chosen examples to demonstrate how particularly features of Greco-Roman culture shed light on Paul's letters and on his readers' possible perception of them. For the new edition all the contributions have been fully revised to take into account the last ten years of methodological change and the helpful chapter bibliographies fully updated. Wholly new chapters cover such issues as Paul and Memory, Paul's Economics, honor and shame in Paul's writings and the Greek novel.

Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds

Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 0521584663
ISBN-13 : 9780521584661
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Synopsis Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds by : Teresa Morgan

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, including the first systematic comparison of literary sources with the papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, Teresa Morgan shows how education developed from a loose repertoire of practices in classical Greece into a coherent system spanning the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. She examines the teaching of literature, grammar and rhetoric across a range of social groups and proposes a model of how the system was able both to maintain its coherence and to accommodate pupils' widely different backgrounds, needs and expectations. In addition Dr Morgan explores Hellenistic and Roman theories of cognitive development, showing how educationalists claimed to turn the raw material of humanity into good citizens and leaders of society.

Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East

Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9780520275799
ISBN-13 : 0520275799
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Synopsis Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East by : Roger S. Bagnall

"This is the most important and original study of literacy and the function of writing in ancient society to have appeared in the last twenty years. In a masterly and detailed survey of evidence from across the ancient Mediterranean world, Bagnall shows how and why 'routine' writing was essential to social and administrative infrastructures from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine periods. Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the role and function of the written text in human social behaviour." —Alan Bowman, Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford University "This richly illustrated and annotated book takes the reader on an extended tour from North Africa to Afghanistan. Bagnall’s theme is the ubiquity and pervasiveness of writing in the long millennium from Alexander to the Arab conquests and beyond. Briskly challenging the currently fashionable low estimates on the extent of literacy and the prevalence of writing in the ancient world, Bagnall surveys and explains what has survived and what has been lost—and why. This is a book both for specialists and for the general reader, sure to inspire admiration and reaction." —James G. Keenan, Professor of Classical Studies, Loyola University Chicago “Bagnall's book is not only a study of everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East, but also an investigation into how our documentation has been distorted by patterns of conservation and discovery and the choices made by modern editors. The sound reflections of an historian on the sources of history.” —Jean-Luc Fournet, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris

Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World

Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 485
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ISBN-10 : 9783110423488
ISBN-13 : 3110423480
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World by : Antonia Sarri

Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have remained underexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing images of letters in the past. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital images and the appearance of more detailed and sophisticated editions, we are now in a position to study such aspects. This book examines the development of letter writing conventions from the archaic to Roman times, and is based on a wide corpus of letters that survive on their original material substrates. The bulk of the material is from Egypt, but the study takes account of comparative evidence from other regions of the Graeco-Roman world. Through analysis of developments in the use of letters, variations in formatting conventions, layout and authentication patterns according to the sociocultural background and communicational needs of writers, this book sheds light on changing trends in epistolary practice in Graeco-Roman society over a period of roughly eight hundred years. This book will appeal to scholars of Epistolography, Papyrology, Palaeography, Classics, Cultural History of the Graeco-Roman World.

Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800

Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 439
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ISBN-10 : 9780472036226
ISBN-13 : 047203622X
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Synopsis Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 by : Roger Bagnall

The private letters of ancient women in Egypt from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest

Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism

Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9789004336506
ISBN-13 : 9004336508
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Synopsis Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism by : Malcolm Choat

As senders of letters, copyists of literary texts, compilers of accounts, readers, and teachers, the monks of late antique Egypt articulated their interactions with their ascetic and secular environments via their role as authors, scribes, and owners of written text. This volume edited by Malcolm Choat and Maria Chiara Giorda examines the presence and practice of writing, modes of written communication, and the symbolic and spiritual value of the written word in monastic communities. Contributions cover evidence from papyri and inscriptions to literature transmitted in manuscripts, positioned within the shift in recent scholarship away from literature such as hagiography as a source of positivistic history, towards evidence that derives more directly from the monk or period in focus.

Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9781009293457
ISBN-13 : 1009293451
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Synopsis Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity by : Max Leventhal

Poetry and mathematics might seem to be worlds apart. Nevertheless, a number of Greek and Roman poets incorporated counting and calculation within their verses. Setting the work of authors such as Callimachus, Catullus and Archimedes in dialogue with the less well-known isopsephic epigrams of Leonides of Alexandria and the anonymous arithmetical poems preserved in the Palatine Anthology, the book reveals the various roles that number played in ancient poetry. Focussing especially on counting and arithmetic, Max Leventhal demonstrates how the discussion, rejection or enacting of these two operations was bound up with wider conceptions of the nature of poetry. Practices of composing, reading, interpreting and critiquing poetry emerge in these texts as having a numerical component. The result is an illuminating new way of approaching Greek and Latin poetry – and one that reaches across modern disciplinary divisions.

Current Trends in the Study of Midrash

Current Trends in the Study of Midrash
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9789047417736
ISBN-13 : 9047417739
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Synopsis Current Trends in the Study of Midrash by : Carol Bakhos

This important collection of essays by leading scholars of rabbinics reflects the current methodological approaches to the study of midrash. The volume situates midrash within the broader contexts of hermeneutics, rabbinics and postmodern studies, and thus presents a comprehensive view of the kinds of issues scholars in the field are engaging.