Academic Calendar 2019/2020 - Education in Ancient Greece and Rome

CLAS 2016  Education in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Students study the different formal and informal systems of education in Ancient Athens and Sparta and in the Roman Republic and Empire, including its intellectual, artistic, rhetorical and physical aspects. Students also examine the degree to which Greco-Roman education informed later Western educational practices from the Middle Ages to the present day.