Niall Livingstone is a Senior Lecturer in Classics, Ancient History, and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham.
Athens has been synonymous with the life of the intellect, and Athens: The City as University tells you just why. It is more than a history of education in terms of curriculum and shows the position of education and ideas in ancient Athens as a whole, providing an understanding of Athenian intellectual culture across the whole social range, and within its socio-political context.
About this book
Acknowledgements
PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE FOR CITIZENS
Introduction: Democratic Knowledge
Citizens Modern and Ancient
Democracies
Intellectual Attainment and Democratic Ideals
Myth and Mousike
Heroic Politics
Hesiod's Poetics of Struggle
Solon: Accommodating Athens to the Muse
PART 2: CITIZEN SPACES
Knowing Where It Happens
Democratic Citizenship: Staging and Rehearsal
What Did Citizens Learn?
Learning at Home
Places of Learning
The Agora
The View beyond the City
In and Out of the Barber's Shop
PART 3: THE CITIZEN PERFORMER
Writing the City
Suspicion of Writing in Athens
On Writers (People Who Write Written Speeches, or Sophists)
The Argument of 'On Writers'
A Misdirected Attack on Writing?
The Two Faces of the Writer
Stylish Spontaneity
Conclusion: the City as University
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