By Craig A. Gibson
This quantity provides the unique textual content and the 1st English translation of the biggest surviving historical selection of initial routines used to coach younger males find out how to compose their very own prose, an important step towards public talking and a profession helpful of the proficient elite. Graded in hassle, the routines diversity from basic fables and narratives to discussions of clever sayings, speeches of compliment and blame, impersonations of figures from fable, descriptions of statues and work, and essays on common propositions (e.g., should still one marry?). It presents a distinct glimpse into the schoolrooms of the traditional Mediterranean from the Hellenistic interval to the Byzantine Empire, vividly illustrating how historic educators used fable, historical past, and well known ethics to form their scholars characters as they sharpened their skill to imagine, write, and communicate.
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Narration 15: On Alcestis34 Apollo served as a slave to Admetus by the will of Zeus,35 but Admetus was Apollo’s servant. And when the Fates came and it was time for him to die, the god postponed his death by pleading with the Fates, who granted him his request but demanded that someone else submit to death in his place. Admetus discussed it with his parents, as they were extremely old. But they still loved life and refused to give it up. So then, his wife Alcestis surpassed her nature and died herself.
5. Περὶ τοῦ Ἀγαμέμνονος Τῶν Ἀχαιῶν ἐν Αὐλίδι συνειλεγμένων Ἀγαμέμνων ἐν θήρᾳ τυχὼν ἐλάφου καὶ τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ἔφη τὴν τέχνην ὑπεραίρειν τῷ ἔργῳ. λυπεῖ τὸ ῥῆμα τὴν θεόν. καὶ ἐμάχετο τῇ ἀναγωγῇ τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ ὁ Κάλχας μηνύει τὴν αἰτίαν, ὡς ἡ Ἄρτεμις ταῦτα πράττει διὰ τὸν κόμπον Ἀγαμέμνονος καὶ οὐ λήξει ποτὲ μὴ δεξαμένων αὐτῆς τῶν βωμῶν τὸ τῆς Ἰφιγενείας αἷμα, παῖς δὲ Ἀγαμέμνονος αὕτη.
And Procne, having learned of her sister’s suffering, set her son before his father as food. But he dined on what he did not recognize as his dearest child, and after eating he tried to kill the one who had served him. But the gods, pitying the misfortune of the child, transformed both into birds. 38. Cf. Narration 19. For the myth, see Ovid, Metam. 424–674; Apollodorus, Bibl. 8. 39. Cf. Narration 18 with notes. 26 libanius’s progymnasmata 20. Περὶ Μαρσύου καὶ αὐλῶν Ηὔλει ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ καὶ τὸ εἴδωλον αὑτῆς ἐν τοῖς ὕδασιν ἰδοῦσα τὸν αὐλὸν ἔρριψεν ὡς οὐκ ἔχον εὐσχημοσύνην τῷ προσώπῳ τὸ αὐλεῖν.