Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Classics: from discipline in crisis to (multi-)cultural capital
- 2 Schoolboys and gentlemen: classical pedagogy and authority in the English public school
- 3 ‘Die Zung’ ist dieses Schwert': classical tongues and gendered curricula in German schooling to 1908
- 4 ‘What does that argue for us?’: the politics of teaching and political education in late eighteenth-century dialogues
- 5 Women and classical education in the early modern period
- 6 Pilgrimage to Parnassus: local intellectual traditions, humanist education and the cultural geography of sixteenth-century England
- 7 ‘Not so much praise as precept’: Erasmus, panegyric, and the Renaissance art of teaching princes
- 8 Teachers, pupils and imperial power in eleventh-century Byzantium
- 9 Reading power in Roman Greece: the paideia of Dio Chrysostom
- 10 Children, animals, slaves and grammar
- 11 A good man skilled in politics: Quintilian's political theory
- 12 The voice of Isocrates and the dissemination of cultural power
- 13 Xenophon's Cyropaedia: disfiguring the pedagogical state
- Select bibliography
- Index
- IDEAS IN CONTEXT
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Classics: from discipline in crisis to (multi-)cultural capital
- 2 Schoolboys and gentlemen: classical pedagogy and authority in the English public school
- 3 ‘Die Zung’ ist dieses Schwert': classical tongues and gendered curricula in German schooling to 1908
- 4 ‘What does that argue for us?’: the politics of teaching and political education in late eighteenth-century dialogues
- 5 Women and classical education in the early modern period
- 6 Pilgrimage to Parnassus: local intellectual traditions, humanist education and the cultural geography of sixteenth-century England
- 7 ‘Not so much praise as precept’: Erasmus, panegyric, and the Renaissance art of teaching princes
- 8 Teachers, pupils and imperial power in eleventh-century Byzantium
- 9 Reading power in Roman Greece: the paideia of Dio Chrysostom
- 10 Children, animals, slaves and grammar
- 11 A good man skilled in politics: Quintilian's political theory
- 12 The voice of Isocrates and the dissemination of cultural power
- 13 Xenophon's Cyropaedia: disfiguring the pedagogical state
- Select bibliography
- Index
- IDEAS IN CONTEXT
- Type
- Chapter
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- Pedagogy and PowerRhetorics of Classical Learning, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998