11.5 Education and transmission of knowledge

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Abaye's mother or master? (1)
Academic training in Babylonia (1)
Apollonius and the Magi (1)
Astronomy of the Chaldeans (1)
Babylon and Seleucia = capitals of Assyria (1)
The Babylonian Magi (1)
Berossus on the antediluvian sages (1)
Chaldean and Egyptian wisdom (1)
Chaldean schools of astronomy (1)
Chaldean schools of astronomy (2)
Chaldean teacher of Pythagoras (1)
Chaldean teacher of Pythagoras (2)
Democritus and his education (1)
Democritus and his education (2)
The disciples of Chaldeans (1)
Doctor in the patient's house (1)
Education of Pythagoras (1)
The first Greek philosophers (1)
The first Greek philosophers (2)
The First Hermes (2)
Graeco-Babylonian Tablets (1)
The Greek novelist Iamblichus absorbed Babylonian learning (1)
Initiation to mysteries (1)
Ionitus and Nimrod (1)
Manetho studied antediluvian texts (1)
Mesopotamian astronomy in Iran (1)
Mesopotamian culture in Roman times (1)
Nimrod = Zoroaster (1)
Nimrod and Ninus (1)
Oannes teaching mankind (1)
On the origin of astrology (1)
The origin of 365-day solar year (1)
Origins of the Greek knowledge (1)
Osiris as the king (1)
Plato's Chaldean visitor (1)
Pliny on the origin of medicine (1)
Pliny on the origin of writing (1)
Ptolemy Philadelphos had Babylonian works translated into Greek (1)
The second and third Hermes (1)
Stoicism and the Chaldean doctrines (1)
The Stoics of Tarsus (1)
Tatian on the origin of Greek divination (1)
Thabit ibn Qurra on paganism (1)
Transmission of knowledge is an initiation into mysteries (1)
Zoroastrians in fourth-century Cappadocia (1)

11. Language, communication, libraries and education (166)

11.1 Imperial languages (101)

11.1 Imperial languages (101)

11.1.1 Assyrian

11.1.2 Babylonian

11.1.3 Aramaic (1)

11.1.4 Minority languages

11.1.5 Shared linguistic items and features (100)

11.1.5.1 Technical terms (1)

11.1.5.2 Idiomatic expressions (7)

11.1.5.3 Formulaic expressions (4)

11.1.5.4 Literary motifs and topoi (29)

11.1.5.5 Mesopotamian loanwords (61)

11.1.5.5.1 Mesopotamian loanwords in Aramaic (33)

11.1.5.5.1.1 Mesopotamian loanwords in Mandaic (13)

11.1.5.5.2 Mesopotamian loanwords in Greek (20)

11.1.5.5.3 Mesopotamian loanwords in Hebrew (3)

11.1.5.5.4 Mesopotamian loanwords in Iranian (7)

 

11.2 Writing systems and writing media (9)

11.2 Writing systems and writing media (9)

11.2.1 Cuneiform script (1)

11.2.1.1 Clay tablets (1)

11.2.1.2 Waxed writing-boards

11.2.2 Alphabetic script (7)

11.2.2.1 Clay tablets (2) (1)

11.2.2.2 Papyrus scrolls (1)

11.2.2.3 Leather scrolls

11.2.2.4 Ostraca

 

11.3 Libraries and archives (5)

11.3 Libraries and archives (5)

11.3.1 Royal libraries

11.3.2 Royal archives (1)

11.3.3 Temple libraries and archives (2)

11.3.4 Private libraries

11.3.5 Private archives

 

11.4 Letters and imperial mail (6)

11.4 Letters and imperial mail (6)

11.4.1 Sealing (1)

11.4.2 Envelopes

11.4.3 Epistolary formulae (2)

11.4.3.1 Address (1)

11.4.3.1 Salutation

11.4.3.2 Blessing formulae (1)

11.4.4 Post system (1)

11.4.4.1 Royal road (1)

11.4.4.2 Road stations

11.4.4.3 Relay system

11.4.4.4 Mule express

11.4.4.5 Postmaster

 

11.5 Education and transmission of knowledge (45)

11.5 Education and transmission of knowledge (45)

11.5.1 Public education

11.5.1.1 Palace schools

11.5.1.1 Temple schools

11.5.1.1.1 Indoctrination of foreign nobility

11.5.2 Private education (6)

11.5.2.1 Private teachers (2)

11.5.3 Higher education (21)

11.5.3.1 Transmission of esoteric lore (20)

11.5.4 School texts (1)