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Born in 1948, Robert A. Kaster graduated from Dartmouth College in 1969, then secured an MA and a PhD from Harvard University (in 1971 and 1975 respectively). [1]Kaster was a teaching fellow in classics at Harvard from 1972 to 1973, then an instructor at Colby College until 1974.
For much of the 20th century, the dominant historiography of schooling in America was exemplified by Cubberley. His many textbooks emphasized the rise of American education as a powerful force for literacy, democracy, and equal opportunity, and a firm basis for higher education and advanced research institutions.
English: This codex from the Plutei Collection of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence contains the complete text of Saturnalia by the fourth−fifth century Latin author Macrobius. The work takes the form of a series of dialogues among learned men at a fictional banquet at which they discuss antiquities, history, literature ...
Champlin specialized in Roman history, Roman politics and law, and Latin literature. He taught over 40 courses during his career and wrote various books on Ancient Rome, notably a biography of Emperor Nero and studies of Cornelius Fronto and of modest Roman landowners.
In the dialogue of Macrobius's Saturnalia, the interlocutor Praetextatus says that sigillaria were substitutes for the sacrificial victims of the primitive religious rituals. [5] Interpreted as such, they raise questions about human sacrifice among the earliest Romans [6] (see also Argei and oscilla). The speaker Evangelus, however, counters ...
The Section published the History of Education Journal. Scholars argued over the field's aims throughout the 1950s. The Ford Foundation formed a Committee on the Role of Education in American History in 1957 to create a history of education from a history of public schools, an effort to make the field more scholarly. The History of Education ...
History of Education Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of education. It is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the History of Education Society and was established in 1949 as the History of Education Journal , obtaining its current name in 1961. [ 1 ]
Saturnalia is an ancient Roman festival and holiday in honour of the god Saturn, held on 17 December in the Julian calendar and later expanded with festivities until 19 December. By the 1st century BC, the celebration had been extended until 23 December, for a total of seven days of festivities. [ 1 ]