
Science Education in the Early Roman Empire
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
3 months free
Buy for $14.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Richard Carrier
-
By:
-
Richard Carrier
Throughout the Roman Empire cities held public speeches and lectures, had libraries, and teachers and professors in the sciences and the humanities, some subsidized by the state. There even existed something equivalent to universities, and medical and engineering schools. What were they like? What did they teach? Who got to attend them? In the first treatment of this subject ever published, Dr. Richard Carrier answers all these questions and more, describing the entire education system of the early Roman Empire, with a unique emphasis on the quality and quantity of its science content. He also compares pagan attitudes toward the Roman system of education with the very different attitudes of ancient Jews and Christians, finding stark contrasts that would set the stage for the coming Dark Ages.
©2016 Richard Carrier (P)2016 Pitchstone PublishingListeners also enjoyed...




















People who viewed this also viewed...


Enjoyable and educational
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Interesting read
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great, but short.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Just wish it were longer.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Interesting
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Illuminating Education in the Ancient World
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
That calls into question just how often Carrier does that sort of thing in the rest of his work which was on the topic of Science Education in the Roman Empire. I had noted earlier on in the book that he spent a great deal of time downplaying the number of educated philosophers were in the Roman Empire, only to later in the book inform us that in the 200s AD Emperor Pius set a standardized amount of such people eligible for imperial benefits in every city. His work might require some scholarly scrutiny from others in his field.
Finally, Carrier must have really big lungs. His narration is very fast without many breaths, and if you’re taking notes you’ll have to pause him often to catch up. The clusters of facts he rapidly narrates makes this a dense lecture for the casual listener, and likely impossible to follow without taking notes. When he digresses momentarily as is natural, only someone who took notes would be able to detect he had digressed, and then be able to tell when he got back on topic as well.
There are many good facts and quotations, and the listener can walk away knowing more than before they listened. So though I question his conclusions, this is a good source for those serious about improving their knowledge. Just be ready to take notes, and hit pause a lot.
Rapid pace, sometimes self-contradictory.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.