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The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education and Culture in Ancient Sparta
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The Gymnasium of Virtue is the first book devoted exclusively to the study of education in ancient Sparta, covering the period from the sixth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Nigel Kennell refutes the popular notion that classical Spartan education was a conservative amalgam of primitive customs not found elsewhere in Greece. He argues instead that later political and cultural movements made the system appear to be more distinctive than it actually had been, as a means of asserting Spartas claim to be a unique society.Using epigraphical, literary, and archaeological evidence, Kennell describes the development of all aspects of Spartan education, including the age-grade system and physical contests that were integral to the system. He shows that Spartan education reached its apogee in the early Roman Empire, when Spartans sought to distinguish themselves from other Greeks. He attributes many of the changes instituted later in the period to one personthe philosopher Sphaerus the Borysthenite, who was an adviser to the revolutionary king Cleomenes III in the third century B.C.

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title	:	The Gymnasium of Virtue : Education & Culture in Ancient Sparta Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
author	:	Kennell, Nigel M.
publisher	:	University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0807822191
print isbn13	:	9780807822197
ebook isbn13	:	9780807862452
language	:	English
subject	Education, Greek, Education--Greece--Sparta (Extinct city).
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	LA75.K46 1995eb
ddc	:	370.938
subject	:	Education, Greek, Education--Greece--Sparta (Extinct city).

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The Gymnasium of Virtue

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STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF
GREECE AND ROME
P. J. Rhodes and Richard J.A. Talbert, editors

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The Gymnasium of Virtue

Education & Culture in Ancient Sparta

Nigel M. Kennell

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
Chapel Hill & London

Page iv

1995

The University of North Carolina Press

Manufactured in the United States of America

The paper in his book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

Excerpt from English Music by Peter Ackroyd,
copyright 1992 Peter Ackroyd.
Used by permission of the author.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kennell, Nigel M.
The gymnasium of virtue: education and culture in
ancient Sparta / Nigel M. Kennell.
p. cm(Studies in the history of Greece and Rome)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2219-1 (alk. paper)
1. Education, Greek. 2. EducationGreeceSparta
(Extinct city) I. Title. II. Series.

LA75.K46 1995

370'.938dc20

94-45772

CIP

99 98 97 96 95 5 4 3 2 1

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TO MY PARENTS

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 In the Track of the Famous Agoge*

Chapter 2 Training Up the Youth

Chapter 3 The Contests of the Later Agoge*

Chapter 4 The Lycurgan Customs

Chapter 5 The Inventor of the Agoge*

Chapter 6 From Artemis to the Dioscuri

115

Conclusion

143

Appendix 1. Testimonia on the Whipping Contest

149

Appendix 2. The Status of Amyclae

162

Notes

171

Bibliography

219

Index

235

Page ix

Tables and Plates

Tables

1. Age Grades of the Later Agoge*

2. The Roman Agoge*

Plates

1. Sickle dedication

2. General view of the Orthia sanctuary from the east

3. Foundations of the seating complex at the Orthia sanctuary

4. Roman ruins northwest of the acropolis

5. Theater below the acropolis

6. Foundations of the Roman altar at the Orthia sanctuary

7. Base for a statue of an altar-victor

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