The Hellenistic gymnasium and the pleasure of “paideia”
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Date
2009
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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Abstract
The author tries to investigate the function of the gymnasium, undoubtedly a fundamental institution
of the Hellenistic world (336-30 B.C.). In Hellenistic times it played a very important role also
as educational centre and as an instrument of socializing and integration in the cultural life. The
“men of the gymnasium” represented the leading social groups in the old and new polis of the
Hellenistic oikoumene. In this context it would not be strange to find the emergence of a new concept
of the paideia as a specially pleasant activity.
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Gymnasium, Education, Paideia
Citation
Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2009, nr XIX, pp. 71-84
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978-83-232-2153-1