- Abacus, 56
- Academy, the (of Plato), 121
- Accent, bad, 13
- Æschines cited, 26
- Æsop, 20
- Age for beginning education, 15
- Alcibiades, 15, 59
- Alexandria, 50, 138
- America, 79
- Ἀμφωτίδες, 29
- Anaxagoras, 47
- Andromache, 8
- Anytus, 88
- Apollodorus, 59
- Ἀπόῤῥαξις, 18
- Ἄρχων of students, 130
- Archytas’s rattle, 13
- Aristophanes cited, 17, 34, 38, 53, 59, 83
- Aristotle cited, 57, 61, 62, 110
- —— his school, 122
- Arithmetic, 54-56
- Ἀσκωλιάζειν, 16
- Astragali, 17, 19
- Astyanax, 8
- Athens, a university town, 82
- —— modern university of, 119
- Βαυκαλήματα, 20
- Beethoven, 65
- Βέμβιξ (top), 17
- Βενίζελος cited, 20
- Boating not a Greek amusement, 23
- Bologna, early schools of, 134
- Boxing, Greek, 29
- Callias, grammatical tragedy of, 47
- Carleton cited, 39
- Carpet, tossing in, 133
- Chairs at Athens, 125
- Χαλκῆ μυῖα, 16
- Χαλκισμός, 17
- Chappell, Mr. Wm., 67
- Chionis, feats of, 30
- Choregi, 131
- Chrestomathies, 50
- Cicero quoted, 29, 39, 75
- Cinnamus quoted, 18
- Cithara, 67
- Claqueurs of Sophists, 123
- Clubs, student, 131
- Cobet cited, 71
- Community of wives and children, 102, 103
- Competitive examinations, 14
- Confirmation, 72
- Course, length of university, 137
- Crammer, the modern, 81, 82
- Csárdás, Hungarian, 63
- Curtius, Ernst, cited, 92
- Demosthenes cited, 40
- Διάδοχος, in the schools, 121
- Dialects, preservation of, 54
- Diogeneion, 134
- Diogenes Laertius, 121
- Diophantus, 133
- Dolls, 20
- Dositheus cited, 44
- Drawing materials, 59
- Dromeus, 27
- Education, general contrasts of Greek and modern, 3
- Egnatius Lollianus, 125
- Egyptian education, 4
- Εἰς ὤμιλλαν, 17
- Elis, country life of, 14, 22, 28
- Encyclical course, 46
- Ephebi, 69 sq.
- Epicrates, law of, 75
- Ἐποστρακισμός, 17
- Eton and Harrow match, 23
- Eunapius cited, 124
- Euripides cited, 8
- Examinations, 14
- Exposing of children, 10-12
- Expression in music, 65
- Field sports, value of, 21
- Football, 18
- Foreign languages, ignorance of, 13, 50
- Form, in games, 23
- Games of boys, 15 sq.
- —— Olympic, 27, 30
- Genius, production of, 105
- Gods, the Greek, 24
- Goldsmith, 41
- Gorgias, 90
- Gounod’s “Faust,” 66
- Grammatical studies of Sophists, 89
- Γραμματιστής, -ικός, 46
- Grasberger quoted, 17, 28, 40
- Gregory Naz. cited, 133
- Grote cited, 77, 79, 101, 110
- Gymnasia, 121
- Hedge schools, 43
- Hellenic character compared to Roman and English, 7
- Heracleids, club of, 131
- Hermes, tutelary god of schools, 43
- Herodes Atticus, 128
- Herodotus quoted, 6, 8, 24, 42
- History, the lessons of, 2, 112
- Homer cited, 7, 10, 36;
- used in education, 37, 45
- Hoops, 17
- Human nature not uniform, 1, 2, 129 n.
- Hungarian gypsies, 62
- Hunting, 22
- Irish people threatened with new dangers, 120
- Isocrates, 91 sq.
- Journalism compared to Sophists, 78 sq.
- Julian (emperor), 128
- Κάλαμον παραβῆναι, 16
- Κυλίστραι, 134
- Κυνδαλισμός, 16
- Lacrosse, 18
- Lamia, 20
- Landscape, Greek notions of, 58
- Ληξιαρχικὸν γραμματεῖον, 73
- Libanius cited, 126, 130, 133
- Longinus, 135
- Love-songs, contrasts in, 66
- Lucian quoted, 39, 40, 44, 123
- Lycon, will of, 123;
- dinners of, 129
- Lycophron, 100
- Lycurgus (the orator), 75
- Lyre, 67, 68
- Marcus Aurelius, 125, 126
- Marriage between relations, 12
- —— rational theory of, 102 sq.
- Massilia, 138
- Μηλολόνθη, 17
- Morra, 19
- Moses, 5
- —— the Attic (sc. Plato), 12
- Mullach, Fragg. Phil., 136
- Music, 35 sq., 113
- —— dangers of, 64
- —— Greek views of, 60 sq.
- Ναναρίσματα, 20
- Notice-boards in schools, 44
- Novices at the university, 134
- Nursery rhymes, 20
- Ochlocracy, the so-called Athenian, 35
- Official dress, foreign love of, 129
- Olympia, Temple of, 58
- Olympic games, 28, 30
- Organization, ephebic, 75
- Orphans, care of, 14
- Orthodoxy in universities, 84, 85
- Ὀστρακίνδα, 16
- Pædagogus, the Greek, 26
- Παιδαγωγεῖον, 42
- Painting, 58 sq.
- Palæstra, 22, 24 sq.
- Pamphilus, 58
- Παραγράφειν, 53
- Parthenon, frieze of, 70, 72
- Paul, St., 81, 82, 138
- Pausanias, 27, 42
- Payment of teaching, 117 sq.
- Πενταλιθίζειν, 17
- Pentathlon, 27
- Peripatos, Aristotle’s, 135
- Περίπολοι, 70, 74
- Permanence of educational problems, 2
- Persian education, 5;
- in Xenophon, 115
- Φαινίνδα, 18
- Phayllus, feats of, 30
- Philosophy, Isocrates’ definition of, 92, 93
- Philostratus cited, 118
- Φρυγίνδα, 17
- Πλαγίαυλος, 68
- Plato quoted, 5, 10, 12, 24, 28, 31, 32, 48, 52, 62, 78, cap. xi. passim
- —— school of, 88, 89
- Platonopolis, 100 n.
- Pliny cited, 58
- Plutarch quoted, 15
- Pollux cited, 18, 71
- Polo at Byzantium, 19 n.
- Prefects (at school), 76
- Prodicus, 53, 85, 90
- Prohæresius, 124, 128
- Protagoras, 85, 89
- Protestantism, Stoic origin of, 138
- Ptolemeion, 134
- Public schools, English, 29
- Pythagoras, system of, 89
- Quintilian quoted, 7, 52
- Rackets, 19
- Rationalism, Mr. Lecky’s, 107
- Renan, E., cited, 49
- Rhetor, the duties of, 126
- Rhodes, 138
- Riding, Greek notions of, 73
- Roman education, 6
- —— character, 7
- Sagatio, 133
- Scales, Greek musical, 64, 65
- Scholarch, 121
- School, the term, 42
- —— appointments of, 42, 43
- Schoolmaster’s tomb, 52
- Science, elementary, 55
- Sentiment about marriage, 107
- Sex, differences of, 104, 112
- Sleeping of infants, 9
- Socrates, 74, 87
- Sophist, the (title), 123
- Sophists, the, 78 sq.;
- their fees, 118
- Sophocles of Sunium, 124
- Sophronistæ, 125
- Spartan nurses, 9, 10
- Spartan mothers, 13, 38
- —— objection to athletics, 27
- —— training, 77
- —— morals, 108
- Σπάρτη ἄτακτος, a club, 132
- Spelling, phonetic, 54
- Speusippus, 118, 121
- Sports, real value of, 31
- Sprint races, 28
- Stoics, 129, 134
- Strabo, 50
- Στρόβιλος (humming-top), 17
- Studiedness of Greek eloquence, 97
- Suidas quoted, 122
- Swimming, 46
- Tarsus, 138
- Theodorus, Homeric pictures of, 45
- Theognis, 50
- Theophrastus cited, 43, 124
- Theseids, club of, 131
- Thring, Rev. G., cited, 58 n.
- Θρόνοι, 125
- Thucydides cited, 42
- Τρίβων, 128, 134
- Uniformity in human nature, how far true, 1, 2, 129 n.
- Uniformity in children, 2
- Ὑπογράφεσθαι, 52, 60 n.
- Ὑποθῆκαι, 50
- Welcker cited, 48
- Women, education of, 103, 104
- Writing materials, 53
- Xenophon, 7, 22
- Ξυστός, 25
- Zeller cited, 78
- Zither, Tyrolese, 68
- Ζωγράφος, -ία, 58
About This Book
A systematic survey of education in ancient Greece traces learning from infancy through advanced study, outlining family influences, early childhood training, and school routines that emphasized physical exercise and music. It describes classroom subjects and methods, including drawing and rhetoric, and the military preparation of adolescents. The work also examines higher instruction, the activities of sophists and major philosophical figures, and the emergence of organized higher learning in the city, considering institutional arrangements, pedagogical aims, and the cultural values that shaped educational practice.