paidagogos curriculum literature music physical education
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paidagogos
Curriculum
Literature
Music
Physical education
Literature
Reading, writing, basic arithmetic
Works of Homer
Music
Use in poetry, developing character
Singing, playing lyre and aulos
Physical education
For wars and games
Mid-5th c. BC Sophists (“experts”) starting toappear in Athens
Demand for training in rhetoric,argumentation, philosophicalreasoning, science
Popularity of rhetoric because ofapplications
Bad reputation
“Socratic method”
399 BC Death of Socrates
Sources on Socrates:
Aristophanes (d. c. 380 BC)
Plato (d. 347 BC)
Xenophon (d. before 350 BC)
Plato (d. 347 BC)
Isocrates (d. 338 BC)
Aristotle (d. 322 BC)
Polymath
Use of empirical observation
Pythagoras (d. c. 500 BC)
Irrational numbers, e.g. √2
Greek medicine
Greek doctors famous as early as6th c. BC
5th-4th c. BC Emergence of two schoolsin Ionia and S. Italy
Hippocratic Corpus ascribed toHippocrates of Cos (d. c. 375 BC)
Greek medicine
Four humours: blood, phlegm, black bile,yellow bile
Treatments incl. blood-letting, drugs, diet,exercise, surgery (rarely)
Asklepios
Greek medicine From the Hippocratic Oath
“I will pay the same respect to my master inScience as to my parents and share my lifewith him and pay all my debts to him. I willregard his sons as my brothers and teachthem the Science, if they desire to learn it,without fee or contract. I will hand onprecepts, lectures and all other learning tomy sons, to those of my master, and tothose pupils duly apprenticed and sworn,and to none other…”