Education in Ancient Rome: From the elder Cato to the younger Pliny

Bonner, Stanley F.

ISBN 10: 0520034392 / ISBN 13: 9780520034396

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1977

About this Item

Octavo. Forest green cloth covered boards and spine with a brown letterbox and shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has a very faint bump at the head and tail of the spine with a nearly unnoticable trace of accompanying rubbing. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 404 pages. Illustrated with a few photographs. Dust Jacket - has light rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the very tips of the four outside corners. Long closed tear leads down into the front cover about 5" from the tip of the upper front outside corner - mostly right along the outside edge - fits together tightly enough in the mylar that it might go unnoticed if not called out. Couple tiny chips in the upper edge of the front cover. Book has light wear, but is still tight, clean, and presents very well. Nice copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Education in Ancient Rome: From the elder Cato to the younger Pliny
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520034392
• ISBN 13: 9780520034396
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: VG+
• Dust Jacket Condition: VG+
• Seller catalogs:
  • History
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

This volume examines the development, structure and role of education from the third century B.C to the time of Trajan, a period which saw great changes in Roman society. When originally published it was the first complete review of the subject for half a century and was based on a new collection and analysis of ancient source material. The book is divided into three parts. The first provides historical background, showing the effects upon the educational system of Rome's transition from a predominantly agricultural community to a great metropolis; it traces the development of primary, grammar and rhetoric schools, and discusses educational standards both in early Rome and under the Empire, when advanced teaching was more widely available, but often adversely affected by weakening social values and diminished parental control. The volume goes on to describe the physical conditions of teaching - accommodation, equipment, discipline, the economic position of teachers and the fee-paying system, and the part played by the State. Finally, he gives a full appraisal of the standard teaching programme, from the elementary study of the three Rs, to the theory and practice of rhetoric, in which the needs of the future advocate were constantly borne in mind.