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.

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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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