Educational Progress In Greece During The Minoan Mycenaean And Lyric Periods

Author : Dwight Grafton Burrage
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330379707
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Educational Progress in Greece During the Minoan, Mycenaean, and Lyric Periods written by Dwight Grafton Burrage and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Educational Progress in Greece During the Minoan, Mycenaean, and Lyric Periods The subject, Educational Progress in Greece during the Minoan, Mycenaean, and Lyric Periods, was suggested by the theme which the writer had taken for his master's thesis, Homeric Education. At first the plan was to include in the larger work the earlier paper, rewritten and adapted to its position as a part of a greater whole; but the decision was finally made to have the doctor's thesis cover only new ground, though an hiatus might be left in the description of the chronological development of education in early Greece. Consequently we shall pass somewhat abruptly from the Mycenaean to the Lyric period. A definite date had to be selected, down to which we should carry our investigation. 525 B. C. was adopted, not because it marks the end of the production of lyric poetry by any means, but because Pindar and Aeschylus, who belong to the new age, were born about this time. Tragedy too was now coming into existence and was to be the most characteristic form of poetry in the fifth century. Again the object of our study is to trace the development of education in the early time, before Greece had made her great achievements along the line of government, learning and aesthetics. In the last years of the sixth century Greece was already emerging from obscurity and rapidly taking the position that she was to maintain in the next two and a half centuries. We wish to confine ourselves to the early days of the development of Greek education, a field for which there is little contemporary evidence, but which is attractive on account of the freshness, simplicity, and freedom from convention that mark the age. We are greatly indebted to Provost James T. Lees of the University of Nebraska for inspiration and for guidance in our preparation of this thesis. His suggestions have been very valuable in shaping the work as a whole and likewise in the matter of details. We gladly express our appreciation of his interest and kindly assistance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.