Hist West Educ:Ancient World V 1

James Bowen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136500688
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Volume One of three, this is a reprint of James Bowen's A History of Western Education originally published by Methuen in the 1970s. Volume One covers The Ancient World: Orient and Mediterranean 2000B.C - A.D. 1054. The volume traces the development of education in the ancient world from the first scribal cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt to learning in the early Christian church. A detailed account is given of the achievements of Greece in literacy, learning, philosophy and training for public life - achievements which were further developed in the Hellenistic Orient and incorporated by the Romans into their own highly organized educational system. This leads to the emergence of a specifically Christian ideal of education, the decline of secular learning in the West, and the preservation of learning both in Byzantium and in Western monasticism.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title
• Series
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Title Page1
• Contents
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• PREFACE
• 1 The First Scribal Cultures : Mesopotamia
• 2 The First Scribal Cultures: Egypt
• 3 Early Civilization of Hellas: Literacy, Learning and Philosophy
• 4 The Achievement of Athens: the Fifth Century
• 5 Rhetoric and Philosophy: Higher Learning in Fourth-Century Athens
• 6 Aristotle and Higher Learning in Hellenistic Athens
• 7 The Hellenistic Orient
• 8 Republic of Rome
• 9 Empire of Rome
• 10 Religious Conflict and Syncretism: Early Christian Thought on Education
• 11 Foundations of Christian Education
• 12 Preservation of Traditional Learning : Byzantium
• 13 The Christian Church and Western Learning
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX