A journal on the history of ancient pedagogical culture is a peer-reviewed international academic journal established in September 2017. The “Hypothekai” journal publishes research materials on the study, preservation and popularization of ancient pedagogical culture in its historical dynamics. Throughout its pages, within the framework of the themes identified, a wide range of topical issues of the formation of ancient education and the development of ancient educational practices in different historical periods are considered. The journal is published yearly. The languages are Russian and English. The journal’s founder is its editor.

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The title of this collection is Hypoth?kai ? a polysemantic word (“instructions”, “advice”, “precepts”), which should not mislead the reader: they will not be taught by the ancient texts or tired by some clever advice. This title was suggested by Brett M. Rogers, a specialist in ancient pedagogy and lecturer at the University of Puget Sound, whose knowledge of ancient texts is leagues ahead of mine. I would like to express my deep gratitude to him for this idea as well as for our scientific discussions, during one of which he pointed to the fragments of the precepts of the centaur Kheiron “Hypoth?kai of Kheiron” (“Precepts of Kheiron”) often ascribed to Hesiod. According to the legend, that lost poem of collected wisdom was passed to humans by the centaur Kheiron, the famous mentor of Achilles. The collection title just alludes to that lost work, inviting to a deep study of ancient texts. I wish to express a heartfelt gratitude to my colleague, Professor Vitaliy G. Bezrogov for his support and his inspirational insistence on the highest academic standards.

2017 Issue 1. Mark Tullius Cicero’s concept of education through culture ????

2018 Issue 2. Teaching through the theater and in the theater: ancient pedagogy of the stage ????

2019 Issue 3. Education in Late Antiquity ????

The theme of the third issue is 'Education in Late Antiquity'. The period of Late Antiquity was a time of rapid transformation of all spheres of social life, the emergence of new and the development of old cultural and religious traditions. In the era of the decline of the Roman Empire the traditions of ancient education experienced their last floutish, marked by activities of such outstanding mentors as Libanius and Choricius, Marius Victorinus and Themistius, Ausonius Hymerius, the functioning of such important educational centers as the schools Athens, Alexandria, Gaza, Burdigala, Beritus. We dedicate the third issue of 'Hypothekai' to the studies of a wide range of factors that provided this socio-cultural phenomenon and the interaction of old and new elements of the education life of the Mediterranean world III - VII centuries. The third issue is available in libraries receiving a compulsory copy through the Russian book chamber, as well as in the library of Martin Luter University of Halle-Wittenberg (Collegienstraße, 62a, Lutherstadt Wittenberg), library of University of Lisbon, the library of University of Coimbra (General Library of the University of Coimbra, Largo da Porta F?rrea, 3000-447 Coimbra), the library of University of Porto (Reitoria da U.Porto, Pra?a Gomes Teixeira, 4099-002 Porto, Portugal), the library of University of Warsaw (Dobra 56/66, 00-312 Warszawa), the library of Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities (ul. Konarskiego 2, 08-110 Siedlce), the library of the Pedagogical Institute of  Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Romana Ingardena 3, Krak?w), the library of the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University, The library of Moscow Pedagogical State University, the library of the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, the Volgograd Regional Universal Scientific Library named after Maxim Gorky.

Preface (*.pdf)

Contents of the third issue (*.pdf)

Section 1. Educational practices of Late Antiquity

Michael A. Vedeshkin. The missing link of the ?Golden Chain?: Aedesius and the neoplatonic school of Pergamon [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2018-3-3-13-59
Maya S. Petrova. Donatus’ Ars grammatica and educational practices of Late Antiquity: Sergius ? Cledonius ? Pompeius [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2018-3-3-60-86
Viktoria K. Pichugina. Homo Ineptus or Homo Sapiens: Joannes Stobaeus and his “universal knowledge” in the educational space of Late Antiquity [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2018-3-3-87-103
Nikolay N. Bolgov, Anna M. Bolgova. Priscian grammarian and his heritage [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2018-3-3-104-120
Attachment. Priscian. Fragments [trans. from Latin into Russian and notes by Nikolay N. Bolgov and Anna M. Bolgova] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2018-3-3-121-145

Section 2. Time and space of education in Late Antiquity 

Ivan A. Mirolyubov. On the education of the sons of Constantine the Great [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2018-3-3-146-160
Alexey V. Kargaltsev. African hagiography in the mid-3d century as pedagogical text. [In Russian with English abstract]  DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2018-3-3-161-172
Evgenia S. Zaitseva. Education in a late roman senatorial family: classical canon and christian ideal [In Russian with English abstract]  DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2018-3-3-121-173-199
Nadezhda P. Volkova. Philosophical education according to Plato and Plotinus [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2018-3-3-200-222

Section 3. Mentor schools and school mentors in Late Antiquity from the perspective of archaeology,philology and history of pedagogy
Vitaly G. Bezrogov. From white class walls to wax on tablets: image of school in Late Antique educational texts [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2018-3-3-223-249
Andrej Yu. Mozhajsky. Reflection of the educational space of Early Christian Boiotian Thebes (4?6 AD) in the material culture [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2018-3-3-250-277
Tatyana L. Aleksandrova. Educational policy of Theodosius II and the fate of Auditorium of Constantinople [In Russian with English abstract] DOI:10.32880/2587-7127-2018-3-3-278-300

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