SCHOOLS OF HELLAS

AN ESSAY ON THE PRACTICE AND THEORY
OF ANCIENT GREEK EDUCATION

IN A RIDING-SCHOOL
From a Kulix by Euphronios, now in the Louvre.
Hartwig’s Meisterschalen, Plate 53.

Schools of Hellas

AN ESSAY ON THE PRACTICE AND THEORYOF ANCIENT GREEK EDUCATION

FROM

600 TO 300 B.C.

KENNETH J. FREEMAN

SCHOLAR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; BROWNE UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR;CRAVEN UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR; SENIOR CHANCELLOR’S MEDALLIST, ETC.

EDITED BY

M. J. RENDALL

SECOND MASTER OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE

WITH A PREFACE BY A. W. VERRALL, Litt.Doc.

ILLUSTRATED

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1907

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PREFACE

The Dissertation here published was written by the lateMr. K. J. Freeman, in the course of the year followinghis graduation at Cambridge as a Bachelor of Arts, witha view to his candidature for a Fellowship of TrinityCollege, for which purpose the rules of the Collegerequire the production of some original work. In thesummer of 1906, three months before the autumnelection of that year, his brilliant and promising careerwas arrested by death.

We have been encouraged to publish the work, as itwas left, by several judgments of great weight; nordoes it, in my opinion, require anything in the natureof an apology. It is of course, under the circumstances,incomplete, and it is in some respects immature. But,within the limits, the execution is adequate for practicalpurposes; and the actual achievement has a substantivevalue independent of any personal consideration. NoEnglish book, perhaps no extant book, covers the sameground, or brings together so conveniently the materialsfor studying the subject of ancient Greek education—educationas treated in practice and theory during themost fertile and characteristic age of Hellas. It wouldbe regrettable that this useful, though preliminary,labour should be lost and suppressed, only because itwas decreed that the author should not build upon hisown f

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