Free Download The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education and Culture in Ancient Sparta By Nigel M. Kennell
1995 | 249 Pages | ISBN: 0807822191 | PDF | 15 MB
The Gymnasium of Virtue is the first book devoted exclusively to the study of education in ancient Sparta, covering the period from the sixth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Nigel Kennell refutes the popular notion that classical Spartan education was a conservative amalgam of "primitive" customs not found elsewhere in Greece. He argues instead that later political and cultural movements made the system appear to be more distinctive than it actually had been, as a means of asserting Sparta's claim to be a unique society.