Greek Education—In Fact and Fiction

Vollgraff W. L'Oraison funèbre de Gorgias. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1952, 1–2.

Freeman K. J. Schools of Hellas: An Essay on the Practice and Theory of Greek Education from 600 to 300 B.C. London: Macmillan, 1907 (3rd Edition, 1932).

Marrou H. I. A History of Education in Antiquity. London: Sheed and Ward, 1956.

Cubberley E. P. The History of Education. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920.

Eby F. Arrowood C. F. The History and Philosophy of Education Ancient and Medieval. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1942.

Rusk R. R. The Doctrines of the Great Educators. London: Macmillan, 1948.

Curtis S. J. Boultwood M. E. A. A Short History of Educational Ideas. London: Univ. Tutorial Press, 1958.

Havelock E. A. The Liberal Temper in Greek Politics. London: Cape, 1957.

Fite W. The Platonic Legend. New York, London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1934.

Popper K. R. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Vol. I. The Spell of Plato. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962. (First pub. 1945).

Johnson R. St. C. “Two Misconceptions of Ancient Education”, in Melbourne Studies in Education, 1961–1962. Parkville: Melbourne Univ. Press, 1964, 239–255. See esp. 249–55.

Atkinson C. Maleska E. T. The Story of Education. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1962, 25.

Webster T. B. L. From Mycenae to Homer. London: Methuen, 1960.

Atkinson C. Maleska E. T. Op. cit., 15.

Ibid., 16.

Ibid., 19.

Ibid., 17.

Johnson R. St. C. Op. cit., 247.

Johnson R. St. C. Op. cit., 245.

Atkinson C. Maleska E. T. Op. cit., 21.

Ibid.

Zimmern A. E. Cf. The Greek Commonwealth. 5th Ed. rev. Oxford Univ. Press, 1931, 271, note; Beck, F. A. G. Greek Education. London: Methuen, 1964, 111–114.

Beck F. A. G. Cf. Op. cit., 220–225.

Johnson R. “Humanism after the Sputnik”. Aust. J. Educ., 2, 1, April, 1958, 49–54. See esp. p. 50: “… humane studies originated as a vocational training for a specific profession …”

Marrou H. I. Op. cit., 45.

Beck F. A. Op. cit., 129–141, esp. 136–138.

Carr E. H. What is History? Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1964. (First pub. 1961), 35 ff.

Atkinson C. Maleska E. T. Op. cit., 22.

Compare the prizes awarded in the Funeral Games in Book XXIII of Homer's Iliad

For mythological details, see Graves R. The Greek Myths. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1955, Vols. I and II. See Section 109 for the Pelops story, Section 138, p. 178, for the reason for the prize of olive leaves at Olympia; and Section 80k for Atalanta and Melanion.

Cf. Pindar Ol. XIII, 44–48, and Norwood G. Pindar. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1945, 19.

Cf. Pindar Pyth. VIII, 84–87: “to whom (i.e. the beaten contestants) was decreed no happy home-coming nor the sweet laughter of friends arousing joy on their return; but, instead, wounded by calamity, they slink by secret street, in suspense of taunting foes”. Cf. also the same sentiment in Ol. VIII, 68–69: “(by victory) he has thrust aside hateful home-coming, tale of shame and secret entrance”

Atkinson C. Maleska E. T. Op. cit., 22.

Freeman K. J. Op. cit., 46.

Bruns I. Frauenemancipation in Athen …, Kiliae, ex officina Schmidtii et Klausigii, 1900.

Gomme A. W. Essays in Greek History and Literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 1937.

Seltman C. Women in Antiquity. London: Thames and Hudson, 1956 (also pub. in Pan edition 1956, 2nd ed. rev. 1957, reprinted 1959). Cf. Castle, E. B. Ancient Education and Today. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1961, 61. Castle has divested himself of the “Oriental seclusion” myth, but seems to boggle at the thought of allowing girls any formal education, though he does recognize the general literary culture of women.

See the List of Monuments (VI. The Education of Girls, nos. 216–243) in Beck, F. A. Op. cit., 344–346.

Seltman C. Op. cit., plate 20 of Pan edition, which shows young aristocrats flirting The girls, as Seltman points out, are not hetairai, and the vase is dated about 500 b.c.

Attic r.f. cup, New York 06.1021.167. It is illustrated in Klein, Anita, Child Life in Greek Art. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1932, pl. 29b

Terracotta, Boston 01.7788. Late 6th century b.c. Illustrated in Pots and Pans of Classical Athens (Amer. School of Classical Studies at Athens. Princeton, New Jersey, 1961. Agora Picture Books), plate 41.

Seltman C. Op. cit. (Pan edition), 121–122. See also Beck, F. A. G. Op. cit., 345–346.