'… an example of impressive interdisciplinary scholarship, deserving of study by scholars in history, English and other language studies as well as classics.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review

• 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; Select bibliography; Index.

'… an example of impressive interdisciplinary scholarship, deserving of study by scholars in history, English and other language studies as well as classics.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review

• 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; Select bibliography; Index.

'… an example of impressive interdisciplinary scholarship, deserving of study by scholars in history, English and other language studies as well as classics.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review

• 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; Select bibliography; Index.