Craig A. Gibson
1 article-
Better living through prose composition? Moral and compositional pedagogy in ancient Greek and Roman progymnasmata ↗
Abstract
Ancient Greek and Roman compositional instruction, as evidenced in Greek handbooks on the progymnasmata and Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria, included a strong moral component. The importance of moral pedagogy to ancient teachers and theorists is seen not only in the themes and contents of the exercises, but also in their sequencing and justification.