Education & paideia
How the ancients educated: reading the poets, training the young, and the Christian use of pagan letters.
Key terms: παιδεία (paideia), educatio, disciplina, schola, μάθησις (mathesis) — the Day 14 terms index will link each term to its occurrences across the corpus.
- Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature
- Antidosis
- Panegyricus
- Against Epicurus: No Pleasant Life
- Consolation to His Wife
- How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
- Isis and Osiris
- On Controlling Anger
- On Fortune
- On Stoic Self-Contradictions
- On Tranquillity of Mind
- On the Cleverness of Animals
- On the Delays of Divine Vengeance
- On the Education of Children
- On the Face in the Orb of the Moon
- Platonic Questions
- Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs
Basil of Caesarea
Isocrates
Plutarch