SCHOOLS OF HELLAS AN ESSAY ON THE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF ANCIENT GREEK EDUCATION [Illustration: Printer’s Logo] [Illustration: IN A RIDING-SCHOOL From a Kulix by Euphronios, now in the Louvre. Hartwig’s _Meisterschalen_, Plate 53.] Schools of Hellas AN ESSAY ON THE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF ANCIENT GREEK EDUCATION FROM 600 TO 300 B.C. BY KENNETH J. FREEMAN SCHOLAR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; BROWNE UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR; CRAVEN UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR; SENIOR CHANCELLOR’S MEDALLIST, ETC. EDITED BY M. J. RENDALL SECOND MASTER OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE WITH A PREFACE BY A. W. VERRALL, LITT.DOC. _ILLUSTRATED_ London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1907 _All rights reserved_ ΦΙΛΟΚΑΛΟΙΣ [PHILOKALOIS] ΚΑΙ [ΚΑΙ] ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΙΣ [PHILOSOPHOIS] PREFACE The Dissertation here published was written by the late Mr. K. J. Freeman, in the course of the year following his graduation at Cambridge as a Bachelor of Arts, with a view to his candidature for a Fellowship of Trinity College, for which purpose the rules of the College require the production of some original work. In the summer of 1906, three months before the autumn election of that year, his brilliant and promising career was arrested by death. We have been encouraged to publish the work, as it was left, by several judgments of great weight; nor does it, in my opinion, require anything in the nature of an apology. It is of course, under the circumstances, incomplete, and it is in some respects immature. But, within the limits, the execution is adequate for practical purposes; and the actual achievement has a substantive value independent of any personal consideration. No English book, perhaps no extant book, covers the same ground, or brings together so conveniently the materials for studying the subject of ancient Greek education――education as treated in practice and theory during the most fertile and characteristic age of Hellas. It would be regrettable that this useful, though preliminary, labour should be lost and suppressed, only because it was decreed that the author should not build upon his own foundation. Novelty of view he disclaimed; but he claimed, with evident truth, that the work is not second-hand, but based upon wide and direct study of the sources, which are made accessible by copious references.