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Listening to the Philosophers offers the first comprehensive look into how philosophy was taught in antiquity through a stimulating study of lectures by ancient philosophers that were recorded by their students. Whether Philodemus of Gadara's notes of Zeno's lectures in the first century BCE, or Arrian recording the Discourses of Epictetus in the second century CE, or the students of Didymus the Blind in the fourth century or Olympiodorus in the sixth century, Raffaella Cribiore shows how the study of notes can enable us to understand the methods and practices of what was an orally conducted education. By considering the pedagogical and mnemonic role of notetaking in ancient education, Listening to Philosophers demonstrates how in antiquity the written and the spoken worlds were intimately intertwined.

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The late Raffaella Cribiore was Professor of Classics at New York University and specialized in education, rhetoric in antiquity, and papyrology. Her books include Gymnastics of the Mind; Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt; Libanius the Sophist; and, as coauthor, Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC–AD 800.

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