Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals

by Thomas Davidson

INDEX

• A
• Academics, [112], [210].
• Academy, [86], [112].
• Achilles, [6].
• Æolian Education, [38] sqq.
• Æolians, [35].
• Æschylus, [104] sqq.
• Æsop's Fables [146], [223].
• Ἀΐτας, [47].
• Alexander the Great, [40], [156] sq., [178].
• Alexandria, [211].
• Ammonius Saccas, [225], [227].
• Amphidromia, [65].
• Amyntas, [156].
• Anaxagoras, [24], [99] sq.
• Antisthenes, [112].
• Apoxyomenos, the, [82] n.
• Archytas, [55], [193].
• Aristocracy in Athens, [98].
• Aristophanes, [105].
• Aristotle, Life, [29], [153] sqq.
  • "Death, [159].
  • "Philosophy, [161].
  • "Theology, [165].
  • "Theory of the State, [166] sqq.
  • "Pedagogical State, [172] sqq.
  • "Scheme of Secondary Education, [199].
• Arithmetic, how Taught, [77].
• Artemis Orthia, [50].
• Arts, Origin of, in Greece, [20].
• Athenian Education, [60].
• Athenian Ideal of the State, [63].
• Athletes, [78], [184].
• Athletics, [190].

• B
• Barbarians vs Greeks, [12].
• Bodily Training, [77].
• Branches of Greek Education, [6].

• C
• Cæsar, [217].
• Cato Major, [216].
• Chæronea, Battle of, [157].
• Character of the Greeks (Zeller), [18].
• Children, Defective, [185].
• Children, Treatment of, [185].
• Christianity, [233] sqq.
• Cicero, [217].
• Citharist, his Functions, [77].
• Citizen, Meaning of, [175].
• Clisthenes, [98].
• College Education, [85].
• Commerce, Effect of, [21], [99] sq.
• Competition in Education, [71].
• Conditions of Education, [9].
• Contemplation, [201].
• Copernicus, [39].
• Cornificius (Auctor ad Herennium), [217].
• Cretan Education, [42].
• Culture-State, [90], [175].
• Cynosarges (Gymnasium), [86], [112].
• Cyrus, his Education, [115] sqq.

• D
• Dancing, [82] sqq.
• Democracy in Athens, [92], [99].
• Diagogē (διαγωγή), [33], [178].
• Dionysiac Chorus, [85].
• Dipœnis and Scyllis, [21].
• Discus-throwing, [80].
• Dorian Education, [41] sqq.
• Doric Harmonies, [197].
• Draco, [98].
• Drawing, [189].

• E
• Education, "Old," [27], [33], [61] sqq.
  • ""New" [27], [93] sqq.
  • "Higher, [108].
• Εἰσπνήλας (Inspirer), [47].
• Epaminondas, [40], [55].
• Epheboi (Cadets), [49], [89], [90], [116], [118].
• Epheboi, Oath of, [61], [89].
• Epicureans, [210].
• Epochs in Education, [26].
• Essenism, [59], [212].
• Ethnic and Cosmopolitan Life, [205].
• Examinations, [64], [90].

• F
• Family Education in Athens, [64].
• Freedom, Greek Tendency to, [19].
• Freeman's Square, [116], [177].
• Friendship, Aristotle on, [170].

• G
• Games, [66].
• Golden Words, [57] sqq., [146].
• Grading in Schools, [85].
• Grammar, [214], [221].
• Greeks a Mixed Race, [20].
• Greeks vs. Barbarians, [12].
• Guardians of Public Instruction, [185] sqq.
• Gymnasia at Athens, [86], [105].
• Gymnastics, [7], [77], [189].

• H
• Harmony, [55], [56], [76].
  • "Doric, Lydian, etc. [192].
  • "in Music, Unknown to Greeks, [73].
• Hellenic Period of Education, [26], [32] sqq.
• Hellenistic Period of Education, [27], [203] sqq.
• Helots, [44] sq.
• Hermæa, [79], [85].
• Hermias, [155].
• Hesiod, [22].
• Hetæræ, [132].
• Holidays, [85].
• Homeric Education, [6], [17].
  • "Society and Kings, [16].
  • "Poems collected, [35].
• Homeridæ, [21].

• I
• Ideal of Greek Education, [3], [206].
• Individualism and Philosophy, [93] sqq., [207].
• Induction, Method of, [162].
• Ionian Education, [60] sqq.
• Isaiah, [53], [133], [234].
• Ischomachus, [124] sqq.
• Isocrates, [209].

• J
• Javelin-casting, [81].
• Jumping, [80].
• Justinian, [211].

• K
• Kalokagathia, [8], [12], [15], [86].
• Katharsis (purgation), [7], [76], [229].
• Kindergarten, [66], [145].
• Kingdom of Heaven, [234].
• "Know Thyself," [108].

• L
• Larceny, Instruction in, [48].
• Leaping, [80].
• Learning, how viewed in Greece, [72].
• Leisure, Education for, [33], [179].
• Letters, [22], [188].
• Letters, Introduction and Uses of, [21].
• Liberal Arts, 180 sqq., [198].
• Library of Alexandria, [211].
• Life the Original School, [6].
• Literary Education, [72].
• Love, as a Power in Life, [234].
• Lyceum, [105], [171].
• Lycurgus, [42], [43].
• Lysis, [39].

• M
• Macedonian Period in Education, [13].
• Marriage, [10], [127].
• Melleirenes, [49].
• Milo, the Wrestler, [55].
• Money-making Classes, [13].
• Music, [22], [34], [72] sqq., [188], [191].
• Music, Greek Feeling for, [76], [146].
• Museum at Alexandria, [211].

• N
• Nymphæum at Stagira, [156].
• Neoplatonism, [212], [227].

• O
• Œconomy, [13].
• Olympic Games, [78].

• P
• Παιδονόμοι, [46], [185], [187].
• Palæstra, [69] sq., [78] sq.
• Pantheism, [136].
• Parmenides, [24].
• Parthenon, [24], [106].
• Pedagogical State, [172] sqq.
• Pedagogue, [68].
• Peleus, [7].
• Pentathlon, [88].
• Pericles, [105] sqq.
• Perioikoi, [44].
• Periods of Greek Education, [26] sqq.
• Persian Education, [115] sqq.
• Personality, [202].
• Pherecydes, [53].
• Phiditia, [44].
• Philolaus, [39].
• Philosophy, Rise of, [22].
• Philosophy and Individualism, [93] sqq.
• Physical Culture, [189].
• Physicians in Homer, [17].
• Pindar, [39].
• Pisistratus, [35], [98], [178].
• Plato, [29], [112], [133] sqq., [134], [136], [137], [142].
• Play, [66], [181] sqq.
• Plotinus, [29], [225] sqq., [228] sqq.
• Poetesses, [21].
• Poetry, Value of, for Education, [73] sqq.
• "Professional," Meaning of, [195].
• Prometheia, [24].
• Proxenus of Atarneus, [155].
• Purgation, [7], [76].
• Pythagoras, [29], [52] sqq., [149].
• Pythias, [156].

• Q
• Quadrivium, [144], [198].
• Quintilian, [29], [214] sqq.

• R
• Reading, [75].
• Rhapsodes, [23].
• Rhetorical Schools, [209], [217].
• Roman Education, [216] sqq.
• Roman Period, [27].
• Ruling and Ruled, [176].
• Running, [79].

• S
• School Education in Athens, [67].
  • "Buildings""[69].
  • "Rooms""[77].
• Scipio Africanus, [216].
• Singing, [75].
• Slaves, [12].
• Social Life in Greece, [18].
• Socrates, [24], [107] sqq.
• Socratic Method, [109].
• Solon, and his Laws, [68], [98].
• Soothsayers in Homer, [17].
• Sophists, [23], [100] sq.
• Spartan Education, [41], [43] sqq.
• Spartan Girls, [49].
  • "Government, [44].
  • "Ideal, [42].
  • "Mercilessness, [45], [50].
  • "Women, [44].
• Stagira, [155] sq.
• State, Meaning of Term, [174].
• State as a School, [91].
• Stilo, Lucius Ælius Præconinus, [217].
• Stoics, [210].
• Supercivic Man, [136], [234].

• T
• Theban Education, [28].
• Themistes, [17].
• Theories of Education, [28].
• Therapeuts, [212].
• Thomas Aquinas, [165].
• Thucydides' Daughter, [37].
• Tragedy, [84].
• Trivium, [144], [198].

• U
• University Education, [90].
  • " of Alexandria, [212].
  • " of Athens, [211].

• W
• Wilhelm Meister, [173].
• Wingless Victory, [63].
• Wisdom, the Ideal of Athens, [63].
• Women, Education of, [49], [124].
• Worth, [16], [48].
• Worth, Aristotle's Pæan to, [4].
• Wrestling, [81] sqq.
• Writing, [75].

• X
• Xenophon, [29], [113], [114] sqq.
  • "Memoirs of Socrates, [123].
  • "Œconomics, [124].
  • "on Female Education, [124] sqq.

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