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"Gymnastics of the Mind" Book Review "Gymnastics of the Mind" presents a comprehensive study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. It also offers an insight on the educational practices during the Greco-Roman world. The book covers the methods of teaching, how people acquire knowledge and skills, how schools functioned and the school curriculum. To be able to present the facts clearly, Raffaella Cribiore uses, for her research, more than 400 papyri, ostraca (sherds of pottery or slices of limestone), and tablets that show exercises such as letters of the alphabet and rhetorical compositions. The facts presented by Cribiore greatly anyone interested in ancient liberal education. It compiles the reality of how Greco-Roman students learned reading, writing and arithmetic in school. The book describes possible school in the pharoah's tomb, math problem that requires a definite answer of eight thousand four hundred seats for...

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