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Some Motives In Pagan Education Compared With The Christian Ideal: a study in the philosophy of education

TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I Introduction Aim and scope of the present work — Countries selected as types for study — Pagan countries, Sparta, Athens, Rome — The Jewish People — The Christian Ideal — Roots of Greek love of emulation — Sources of this work — Increased inheritance of man today — The Christian inheritance. CHAPTER II Motives Furnished by the Homeric Epic Emulation dominant — Attributed also to the gods — Emulation evidenced in cause and progress of Trojan War — Partiality of the gods — Homer, the Greek child's "First Book" — Plato's opinion of using Homer as a text — Means by which the Iliad and the Odyssey reached the child — Minstrel — Rhapsodist — Xenophon's testimony of Homer's place in education — Christian virtues almost excluded from the Iliad and the Odyssey. CHAPTER III Greek Athletics in Homeric and in Early Historic Times Skill in athletics — Diversity of contests — Funeral games in the Twenty-third Iliad — Prizes — Regularly organized athletics in early Historic times — Tradition of existence of contests in Pre-Doric times — Exclusion of women — The Heraea — Olympic games — Other games — General provision for physical training — Period of excessive athletic

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