Online Lecture: Brayden Hirsch

Reading in the Ancient Classroom

An online lecture presented by Brayden Hirsch, Department of Classical Studies, Boston University
Co-sponsored by the University of Toronto Department of Classics and by the University of St. Michael’s College Division of Continuing Education.

What was it like to learn to read in antiquity? How did students experience the texts we call “classics” today?  In this talk we will get a glimpse into the ancient classroom, with an overview of the varieties of surviving evidence (literary accounts, papyri, ostraca, writing tablets, written colloquia) and examples of each.

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