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Old Greek Education

Chapter 28: Transcriber's Note
By J. P. Mahaffy
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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.

Transcriber's Note

The following changes have been made to the text as printed:

  1. Footnotes have been renumbered and assembled at the end of each chapter.
  2. A small number of errors in the punctuation and spacing of the original work have been silently corrected.
  3. Page 34: re-referred has been corrected to referred.
  4. Page 39: A missing footnote marker has been inserted after impatient at idleness:.
  5. Page 40: A missing footnote marker has been inserted after sensible remark.
  6. Footnote 19, 5th line from end: τρὸς has been corrected to πρὸς.
  7. Footnote 28: Οεωδώρηον has been corrected to Θεωδώρηον.
  8. Footnote 41: γυμναστικήν has been corrected to γυμναστικὴν.
  9. Footnote 44: θεατής has been corrected to θεατὴς.
  10. Page 86: spritually has been corrected to spiritually.
  11. Page 96: Comma removed from St. John, Chrysostom.
  12. Footnote 59, start of third sentence: Η (Greek letter) has been corrected to Ἢ.
  13. Footnote 67, second sentence: χόρος has been corrected to χορός.
  14. Page 141, Index: Διαδόχος has been corrected to Διάδοχος.
  15. Page 143, Index: Ptolemeion referenced to Page 134, not Page 151.

The following anomaly in the printed text is noted, but no change has been made:

  1. Page 146, Index: Appletons’ Journal (New York City, 1869–1881) printed its own name with the apostrophe in that unexpected position.