Pedagogy and Power
Rhetorics of Classical Learning

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Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction Yun Lee Too
1. Classics: from discipline in crisis to (multi-)cultural capital Paul Cartledge
2. Schoolboys and gentlemen: classical pedagogy and authority in the English public school Christopher Stray
3. 'Die Zung' ist dieses Schwert': classical tongues and gendered curricula in German schooling to 1908 Sarah Colvin
4. 'What does that argue for us?': the politics of teaching and political education in late eighteenth-century dialogues Clare Brant
5. Women and classical education in the early modern period Jane Stevenson
6. Pilgrimage to Parnassus: local intellectual traditions, humanist education and the cultural geography of sixteenth-century England Warren Boutcher
7. 'Not so much praise as precept': Erasmus, panegyric and the Renaissance art of teaching princes David Rundle
8. Teachers, pupils and imperial power in eleventh-century Byzantium Panagiotis A. Agapitos
9. Reading power in Roman Greece: the paideia of Dio Chrysostom Tim Whitmarsh
10. Children, animals, slaves and grammar Catherine Atherton
11. A good man skilled in politics: Quintilian's political theory Teresa Morgan
12. The voice of Isocrates and the dissemination of cultural power Niall Livingstone
13. Xenophon's Cyropaedia: disfiguring the pedagogical state Yun Lee Too
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