Source Book of the History of Education for the Greek and Roman PeriodMacmillan Company, 1901 - 515 pages |
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... military camp organ- ized for the training of warriors . The Spartans were a small group of conquerors among a large subject popula- tion . Their national existence depended upon the military excellence of their citizens , and their ...
... military camp organ- ized for the training of warriors . The Spartans were a small group of conquerors among a large subject popula- tion . Their national existence depended upon the military excellence of their citizens , and their ...
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... military char- acter after the age of twelve , and wholly so from the eighteenth or twentieth year , during which time the youth lived in barracks or was engaged in actual military service . In time of peace this service was in the ...
... military char- acter after the age of twelve , and wholly so from the eighteenth or twentieth year , during which time the youth lived in barracks or was engaged in actual military service . In time of peace this service was in the ...
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... military power of Sparta . It lost much of its rigidity after the Peloponnesian War , and ceased to have any force by the opening of the second century B.C. Athenian Education of the old period was similar to the Spartan education in ...
... military power of Sparta . It lost much of its rigidity after the Peloponnesian War , and ceased to have any force by the opening of the second century B.C. Athenian Education of the old period was similar to the Spartan education in ...
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... military in character than at Sparta . The purpose of gymnastic was the development of a sound and beautiful physique , not simply the making of a warrior . Beauty and grace , quite as well as power of endurance , entered into the aims ...
... military in character than at Sparta . The purpose of gymnastic was the development of a sound and beautiful physique , not simply the making of a warrior . Beauty and grace , quite as well as power of endurance , entered into the aims ...
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... military service in guard and police duty , mostly in the rural regions . At twenty he was admitted to full citizenship . While this education was more literary in character than the Spartan , its dominant motive was moral and social ...
... military service in guard and police duty , mostly in the rural regions . At twenty he was admitted to full citizenship . While this education was more literary in character than the Spartan , its dominant motive was moral and social ...
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Page 282 - And any occupation, art, or science, which makes the body or soul or mind of the freeman less fit for the practice or exercise of virtue, is vulgar; wherefore we call those arts vulgar which tend to deform the body, and likewise all paid employments, for they absorb and degrade the mind.
Page 378 - Alexander, the grammarian, to refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression; but dexterously to introduce the very expression which ought to have been used, and in the way of answer or giving confirmation, or joining in an inquiry about the thing itself, not about the word, or by some other fit suggestion.
Page 311 - It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Page 211 - Now, when all these studies reach the point of inter-communion and connection with one another, and come to be considered in their mutual affinities, then, I think, but not till then, will the pursuit of them have a value for our objects; otherwise there is no profit in them.
Page 281 - The citizen should be moulded to suit the form of government under" which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy; and always the better the character, the better the government.
Page 29 - ... acquired by men who knew their duty and had the courage to do it, who in the hour of conflict had the fear of...
Page 217 - After that time those who are selected from the class of twenty years old will be promoted to higher honour, and the sciences which they learned without any order in their early education will now be brought together, and they will be able to see the natural relationship of them to one another and to true being.
Page 156 - Neither are comic and tragic actors the same; yet all these things are but imitations. They are so. And human nature, Adeimantus, appears to have been coined into yet smaller pieces, and to be as incapable of imitating many things well, as of performing well the actions of which the imitations are copies.
Page 110 - When they meet together, and the world sits down at an assembly, or in a court of law, or a theatre, or a camp, or in any other popular resort, and there is a great uproar, and they praise some things which are being said or done, and blame other things, equally exaggerating both, shouting and clapping their hands, and the echo of the rocks and the place in which they are assembled redoubles the sound of the praise or blame — at such a time will not a young man's heart, as they say, leap within...
Page 28 - To sum up : I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the most versatility and grace.