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EPISODE ONE:

EDUCATION

In today's episode...

Welcome to the first instalment of the Agora Gossip podcast! Today’s episode is all about education. We will be looking at who had the opportunity to learn, what lessons were taught, and what education looked like for girls.​

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Perhaps, when listening to this podcast, you may want to consider this question: Would you like to have been educated in ancient Athens? Or, do you prefer the way you were taught at school in the modern day? 

 

If you want to hear more about this, then press play and listen to the second episode of Agora Gossip!

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Agora GossipEpisode One
00:00 / 11:27

PODCAST CREDITS

Host 

Freya Betts

Thumbnail 

Cloud images - Sir Aqui 

Border/temple/leaves - Canva

Music

All music was found on Pixabay

In Horto - theromancrow

Ancient Legend - SergePavkinMusic

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Here is a list of works I consulted when making this episode. Feel free to check them out to further your knowledge!

Primary sources 

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  • Herodotus, The Histories, 8.75.1, trans. by A. D. Godley (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1920) in Perseus Digital Library <https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/> [accessed 25 August 2025].

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  • Homer, The Iliad, trans. Martin Hammond [Penguin Classics] (London, 1987).

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  • Homer, The Odyssey, trans. by E. V. Rieu (London: Penguin Books, 2003).

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  • Plato, Laws, 7.794, trans. by R.G. Bury (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967 & 1968) in Perseus Digital Library <https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/> [accessed 25 August 2025].

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  • Plato, Protagoras, 326, trans. by W.R.M. Lamb (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967) in Perseus Digital Library <https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/> [accessed 25 August 2025].

Secondary literature

  • Beck, Frederick, A.G., Greek Education (London: Methuen & Co LTD, 1964).

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  • Patterson, Cynthia, ‘Education in Plato’s Laws’, in The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World, ed. by Judith Evans Grubbs and Tim Parkin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). pp. 365-380.

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  • Pritchard, David M., ‘Athens’, in A Companion to Ancient Education, ed. by W. Martin Bloomer (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015). pp. 112-122.

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  • Stevanović, Lada, ‘Women’s Education, Knowledge and Competence in Ancient Greece’, Philosophy and Society, 34:1 (2023), 43-58.

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  • Wolicki, Aleksander, ‘The Education of Women in Ancient Greece’, in A Companion to Ancient Education, ed. by W. Martin Bloomer (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015). pp.305-320.

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