Sophists, 157-178, 286 and mathematics, 102 subjects taught, 165 criticism of Aristophanes, 166 criticism of Plato, 174 scale of fees, 169 secret of their power, 170 their undemocratic influence, 177 their rationalism, 177 criticised by Isokrates, 182 Sophokles, 3 Sophronistai, 70, 212-213, 220 Sparta, education at, 11-34 character of people, 11 importance of education at, 12 details of Pheiditia, 13-15 the State a military machine, 12 conservatism of, 12 strictness of discipline, 13 Spartan nurses, 13 system of State schools, 14 Syssitia, 39-40 ideals in education, 275 educational methods, 285 Spelling, teaching of, 88-90 Spelling-book, terra-cotta fragment of, 89 _n._ Speusippos, 202 Stadion, 133 Stesimbrotos, 230 Swimming, 143, 152-153 Syntono-Lydian harmony, 242 Syssitia at Sparta, 39-40, 267 at Crete, 40-41 Tabula Iliaca, 84 Taügetos, exposure of Spartan children on, 13 Taureas, palaistra of, 60 Technical instruction, 44-46 of the logographoi, 180-181 Teles, 115, 160 Tennyson, quoted, 235 Teos, 220 educational endowments in, 62 prizemen in competitions, 63 recitations of boys at, 96 Tertiary education, 210-223 Thales (Cretan poet), 243 Thallo, 211 Thargelia, 148, 155 Theodoros, 160, 176 Theognis, 96 Theophanes, 212 Theophrastos, 243 Theory of education, 227-272, 275-291 Plato’s views on, 205-206 Xenophon’s views on, 259-272 Thermopylae, 3 “Theseus,” of the Parthenon, 5, 245 Thespis, 247 Thrasuboulos of Kaludon, 215 Thrasumachos, 177, 208 Timeas, palaistra of, 60 Timotheos, 12, 145 Timotheos the general, 196 Timotheos of Herakleia, 192 Tisias, 208 Tithenidia, 40 Torch-race, 155 Trade, Greek views on, 43 Troizen, schools in, 77, 220 Undressing-room in the gymnasium, 135 Virgil, 2 Wax, tablets of, 84 Women, gymnastics for, at Sparta, 30 seclusion of, 46 duties of, 47 excluded from athletics in Athens, 142 admitted to the Akademeia, 197 position of, 282 Wrestling in the palaistra described, 130-132 Writing, teaching of, 85-87 Xenokrates, 196, 201, 202, 203 Xenophanes, 229 Xenophanes of Kolophon, criticises athleticism, 121 Xenophon, treatise on _The Horse_, 208 handbooks on educational subjects, 208 _The Education of Kuros_, 259-272 character of, 259-260 Xerxes, 61, 239 Xustos, in the gymnasium, 141 Zeuxippos of Heraklea, 114 ἄβακος [abakos], 104 ἀγέλαι [agelai], 37 ἀλειπτής [aleiptês], 126 _n._ ἀνδρεῖα [andreia], 35 ἀπεργάζεσθαι [apergazesthai], 116 ἀπόδρομοι [apodromoi], 38 ἀποδυτήριον [apodytêrion], 135 γραμμαί [grammai], 86 γραμματιστής [grammatistês], 165 γυμνασιαρχεῖν [gymnasiarchein], 155 γυμνοπαιδία [gymnopaidia], 146 ἐλαιοθέσιον [elaiothesion], 136 _n._ ἐξαλείφειν [exaleiphein], 116
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