Excerpt from University Life in Ancient Athens: Being the Substance of Four Oxford Lectures Around them was grouped a multitude of other teachers, lecturers in rhetoric and grammar, who dressed up in popular and showy forms their theories of literary art. And so men came to think of her as the University of higher culture, in which were represented all the studies of the age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.