Chapter I: Front Matter

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OLD GREEK EDUCATION

by

J. P. MAHAFFY, M.A.

Fell. and Tutor, Trin. Coll., Dub. Knight of the Order of the Saviour Author of “Social Life in Greece” “A History of Greek Literature” “A Primer of Greek Antiquities” etc.

New York Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square 1882

TO

THE GREEK NATION

STILL, AS OF OLD, THE PIONEER OF EDUCATION

IN EASTERN EUROPE

+I Dedicate+

THIS LITTLE BOOK

IN MEMORY OF THE YEAR 1881

PREFATORY NOTE.

Readers unfamiliar with Greek will find the equivalent of the Greek words cited in the nearest word printed in italics.

The scope of this book precludes me from acknowledging individually my many obligations to other authors, both for curious facts and for learned references.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

INTRODUCTION 1

I. Infancy 7

II. Earlier Childhood 14

III. School Days--The Physical Side 21

IV. School Days--The Musical Side--The Schoolmaster 32

V. The Musical Side--Schools and their Appointments 42

VI. The Subjects and Method of Education--Drawing and
Music 57

VII. The Last Stage of Education--Military Training of the
Ephebi 69

VIII. Higher Education--The Sophists and Socrates 78

IX. The Rhetors--Isocrates 91

X. The Greek Theorists on Education--Plato and Aristotle 99

XI. The Growth of Systematic Higher Education--University
Life at Athens 116

INDEX 141

GREEK EDUCATION.