The gymnasion in the Hellenistic East : motives, divergences, and networks of contacts

This thesis is a socio-cultural study of the Greek gymnasion in the Hellenistic period: its development, the factors that underpinned its adoption, and the role of native educational practices in that process. Focusing on the Seleukid and Ptolemaic kingdoms, it presents a parallel study of the gymna...

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Main Author: Stavrou, Dorothea
Other Authors: Shipley, Graham ; Scott, Sarah
Published: University of Leicester 2016
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.700932