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  2. Education in ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    Education for Greek people was vastly "democratized" in the 5th century B.C., influenced by the Sophists, Plato, and Isocrates. Later, in the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greece, education in a gymnasium school was considered essential for participation in Greek culture. The value of physical education to the ancient Greeks and Romans has been ...

  3. History of education - Wikipedia

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    The history of education, like other history, extends at least as far back as the first written records recovered from ancient civilizations. Historical studies have included virtually every nation. [1] [2] [3] The earliest known formal school was developed in Egypt's Middle Kingdom under the direction of Kheti, treasurer to Mentuhotep II (2061 ...

  4. Classical education in the Western world - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from a 16th-century manuscript showing a meeting of doctors at the University of Paris. Classical education in the Western world refers to a long-standing tradition of pedagogy that traces its roots back to ancient Greece and Rome, where the foundations of Western intellectual and cultural life were laid.

  5. Women in classical Athens - Wikipedia

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    According to Shelley Haley, Pomeroy's work "legitimized the study of Greek and Roman women in ancient times". [ 21 ] However, classics has been characterised as a "notoriously conservative" field, [ 21 ] and initially women's history was slow to be adopted: from 1970 to 1985, only a few articles on ancient women were published in major journals ...

  6. Platonic Academy - Wikipedia

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    The Academy (Ancient Greek: Ἀκαδημία, romanized: Akadēmía), variously known as Plato's Academy, the Platonic Academy, and the Academic School, [citation needed] was founded at Athens by Plato circa 387 BC. Aristotle studied there for twenty years (367–347 BC) before founding his own school, the Lyceum.

  7. Women in Greece - Wikipedia

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    Women are frequently depicted as "sexual objects" in ancient Greek pottery, thus providing context for the sexual culture of Ancient Greece. [70] A majority of vase scenes portray women inside their houses. A common presence of columns suggests that women spent much of their time in the courtyard of the house. The courtyard was the one place ...

  8. Lyceum (classical) - Wikipedia

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    Detail from Raphael's The School of Athens (1509–1511) The Lyceum (Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, romanized: Lykeion) was a temple in Athens dedicated to Apollo Lyceus ("Apollo the wolf-god" [1]). It was best known for the Peripatetic school of philosophy founded there by Aristotle in 334 BC.

  9. List of schools in Greece - Wikipedia

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    Pierce College - American College of Greece; Peiramatiko Lyceum Anavryton (aka Anavryta) Protypo School; St Lawrence College, Athens; St. Catherine's British Embassy School; Ionideios Model School Of Piraeus; 1st High School of Ymittos; 3rd High School of Kifissia; 3rd High School of Paleo Faliro; 5th Junior High School of Nea Smyrni