The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and PoliticsTwo...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859

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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859

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Author: Various
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

Two distinct yet harmonious branches of study claimed the early attention of the youth of ancient Greece. Education was comprised in the two words, Music and Gymnastics. Plato includes it all under these divisions:"That having reference to the body is gymnastics, but to the cultivation of the mind, music." Grammar was sometimes distinguished from the other branches classed under the term, Music; and comprehended, besides a knowledge of language, something of poetry, eloquence, and history. Music embraced all the arts and sciences over which the Muses presided. Grammar, Music, and Gymnastics, then, comprised the whole curriculum of study which was prescribed to the Athenian boy. There were not separate and distinct learned professions, or faculties, to so great an extent as in modern times. The compass of knowledge was far less defined, and the studies and attainments of the individual more miscellaneous. Some of the arts rose to an unparalleled perfection. Architecture and sculpture attained an excellence which no subsequent civilization has reached. But the practical application of the sciences to daily use was almost entirely neglected; and inventions and mechanics languished until the far later uprising of the Saxon mind. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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