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Excerpt from Educational Progress in Greece During the Minoan, Mycenaean, and Lyric Periods
A definite date had to be selected, down to which we Should carry our investigation. 525 B. C. Was adopted, not because it marks the end of the production of lyric poetry by any means, but because Pindar and Aeschylus, who belong to the new age, were born about this time. Tragedy too was now coming into existence and was to be the most characteristic form of poetry in the fifth century. Again the object of our study is to trace the development of education in the early time, before Greece had made her great achievements along the line of government, learning and aesthetics. In the last years of the sixth century Greece was already emerging from obscurity and rapidly taking the position that she was to maintain in the next two and a half centuries. We wish to confine ourselves to the early days of the development of Greek education, a field for which there is little contemporary evidence, but which is attractive on account of the freshness, simplicity, and freedom from convention that mark the age.
We are greatly indebted to Provost James T. Lees of the Uni versity of Nebraska for inspiration and for guidance in our prepara tion of this thesis. His suggestions have been very valuable in shap ing the work as a whole and likewise in the matter of details. We gladly express our appreciation of his interest and kindly assistance.
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