[lit-ideas] "Egkuklios paideia" (Galen, Pliny, Quintilian)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:18:52 EDT
According to the OED, 'encyclopaedia' (or in Greek, ) is "an erroneous form
(a false reading) occurring in MSS. of
Quintilian (Loeb, Institutio Oratoria)
Pliny (Loeb, Historia Naturalis)
and
Galen (Loeb, Phusikon Dunameon)
"for ‘encyclical education’, the "circle" of the seven liberal arts (and
sciences) -- the trivium and quadrivium -- tekhnai -- considered by the
Greeks as essential to a liberal education (cf. 'encyclical' A. 1).
So, I suppose it _is_ the strict Grecian equivalent for a 'round up'
(egkuklos') 'education', or 'puerilitas', as the strict Roman for 'paideia'
should
be.
In American English, 'paideia' and 'puerilitas' comes out as 'kiddities'.
Or was it a Brit who first thought of calling the bairn a 'kid'?
Cheers,
JL
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