| Homer praised through oratory becomes the hallmark of Hellenism, an indispensable part of the encyclic paideia which rhetoric was seeking to appropriate. |
| She is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, working on the relationship between paideia and visual culture in late antiquity. |
| The fight with Goliath is the culminating stage in this paideia, where David proves his worthiness to be king through his personal heroism. |
| The ancient Athenian roots of rhetoric instruction stressed paideia. |
| This is the Platonic idea of paideia, what we today call culture. |
| The pivotal exemplar is Origen, who built an alternative paideia based on an alternative classical culture expressed by biblical literature. |
