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Title
Teachers afraid of their pupils: prudentius' peristephanon 9 in a sociocultural perspective
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Abstract
Prudentius' Peristephanon 9 treats the martyrdom of Cassian, a teacher of stenography who was purportedly murdered by a stylus-wielding throng of his own students. The poem offers itself as a rich source of information about the presence of normative violence in ancient education and suggests how students may have internalized such treatment and responded to it. Parallels are drawn between this tale and others from ancient sources to demonstrate that neither the mode of murder nor the identities of perpetrators and victim were entirely unique. Ancient readers might have been bemused by some of the gruesome details of the tale, but would not been surprised by either the disciplinarian nature of the school teacher or the resentful feelings of the students.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Mouseion / Classical Association of Canada. - Calgary, 2001, currens
Publication
Calgary : 2019
ISSN
1496-9343 [print]
1913-5416 [online]
DOI
10.3138/MOUS.16.S1-6
Volume/pages
16 :s:[1] (2019) , p. 91-108
ISI
000462667300006
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Last edited 29.11.2024
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