Original scientific paper

Late antique higher education and its propaedeutics

Marko Pranjić ; University of Zagreb, University Department of Croatian Studies, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The increasing dominance of the Christian view of education in late antiquity did not result in the disappearance of what the ancient Greek and Romans had left behind. It contin-ues a sort of coexistence with the educational paradigm. Moreover, it continues to be profiled and established, which is particularly reflected in the structure of higher education and what preceded it on a lower level of acquiring educational knowledge and skills. An important part in this was played by the imperial interventions in education by establishing departments in higher-education institutions for different philosophical streams, as well as rhetoric in Greek speaking areas and areas under Greek influence, and legal matters more inherent to the Roman antique tradition. All this was preceded by the acquisition of propaedeutic knowledge embodied through ephebei, i.e. the education of ephebes, and enkyklios paideia (ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία) or enkuklios paideusis (ἐγκύκλιος παίδευσις) as a sort of an educational curriculum specifically designed for that student age. All this was reflected in higher education which used a very similar underlying principle, but also included partial deviations as demonstrated in various higher-education images available for the authors specified herein by way of ex-ample, such as Libanius, Eunapius, Prohairesios, Hypatia, Boethius, certain sophists, and Plato himself.

Keywords

propaedeutics; late antique education

Hrčak ID:

205117

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/205117

Publication date:

16.7.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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