Fourteen studies address the social and political dimensions of education in antiquity. Yun Lee Too (classics, Columbia U.) presents the contributions in chronological format, but they don't form a narrative, instead focusing on particular moments in and aspects of education. Among the topics are the socialization of youth in archaic Greece through "public" and "private" institutions, the practices of sophistic education, the ideology of Platonic and Aristotelian education, the different meanings assigned to Euripides' Phoenissae in various stages of a student's studies, the appropriation of Hellenic education by Rome, and the changes pressed by Christian education on urban and elite pagan paideia (pedagogy). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)