Schools of Hellas / An Essay on the Practice and Theory of Ancient Greek Education from 600 to 300 B. C.

by Kenneth J. Freeman

[422] κονίστρα.

[423] Plato, Laws, 830 B.

[424] For the excitement of the spectators and their shouts of encouragement see Isok. Euag. 32.

[425] Some gymnasia provided a large “Room of the Epheboi.” So in Vitruvius’ model.

[426] Athen. 495-6.

[427] Plato, Polit. 294 D, E.

[428] But by the end of the fourth century the teacher of arms becomes an important individual in the training of the epheboi.

[429] Plato, Euthud. 273 A.

[430] Xen. Econ. iii. 13.

[431] Xen. Econ. xi. 18; Banquet, i. 7, ix. 1.