The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education & Culture in Ancient Sparta (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome)

by NigelM.Kennell (Author)

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  2007

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  Examines education in ancient Sparta, covering the period from the sixth century BC to the fourth century AD. Nigel Kennell refutes the popular notion that classical Spartan education was a conservative amalgam of primitive customs, and argues instead that later political and cultural movements made the system appear to be more distinctive than it actually had been.