Tag Archives: Education

Spartan Women

by Nicole Saldarriaga, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Ladies and gentlemen, let’s talk about Sparta. This is historically a favorite topic of conversation when it comes to the cultures and civilizations of Ancient Greece, and its popularity seems like kind of a no-brainer. After all, who isn’t at least a tiny bit fascinated by a race

Written on March 8, 2022 at 4:33 pm, by Nicole Saldarriaga

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Categories: Culture

Tags: Agoge, Education, Peloponnesian war, Sparta, Spartan women

Education in Ancient Egypt

by Brendan Heard, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom We love to learn about ancient Egypt today…but what did the Egyptians learn about? Was their education system at all like the ancient Greek education system? It is not possible for us today to know the complete details of Ancient Egyptian education, or to trace precisely its history.

Written on December 14, 2021 at 4:45 pm, by Brendan Heard

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Categories: Culture

Tags: Ancient Egypt, Education, Old Kingdom, Papyrus, Scribes

Paideia, Humanitas, and Civility: What Are They and Why Do They Matter?

Written by Alexandra Hudson, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom I recently visited the “Other Parthenon”—an exact replication of the Ancient Athenian Parthenon that was built in the early 1900s in Nashville, Tennessee. Like the original Parthenon, it was absolutely striking: At Civic Renaissance, a publication I curate, we regularly reflect on the way in which the

Written on March 12, 2021 at 8:24 am, by KristinD

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Categories: Culture

Tags: Ancient Greek Education, Classics, Education, humanities

The Education System In Ancient Greece

Written by Katherine Rundell, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom In the disciplines of math and philosophy it is broadly accepted that we have the ancient Greeks to thank for them. From Aristotle to Pythagoras, these towering figures spent countless hours considering the deepest problems of their age, often coming up with new paradigms for them. Metaphysics,

Written on November 3, 2020 at 8:53 pm, by KristinD

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Categories: Culture

Tags: Ancient greek, Ancient Greek Education, Ancient Greek Olympics, Education

Sparta: The Warrior State?

Written by Meghan McKenna, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Sparta, home of Ancient Greece’s most brutal warriors, trained from their youths to become capable hoplites. It is an image that has become a staple of our thoughts when thinking about how Spartan society may have been. But is this the case or is this a force-fed

Written on August 21, 2020 at 6:13 am, by Alex Barrientos

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Categories: Military History

Tags: Agoge, Ancient Greek Military History, Education, Herodotus, Lycurgus, Plutarch, Sparta, Spartan women, Spartans, Xenophon

All You NEED to Know About the Ancient Olympics

Written by Divya Gupta, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom The first Olympic games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896. Around 280 participants from 13 nations competed in 43 sporting games. Since 1994, the famous Game has been held separately as the Winter and Summer Olympics every two years. But did you know these modern games

Written on August 5, 2020 at 6:28 am, by Alex Barrientos

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Categories: Sport

Tags: Ancient Greek Education, Ancient Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek Olympics, Education, Emperor Theodosius, Greek Mythology, Mount Olympus, Olympic games, Olympics