Pedagogue and Boy

3rd-2nd century BCE (Hellenistic)

7 cm 15.4 cm 4.4 cm

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A pedagogue was an adult male who supervised the moral and social education of a young boy. In Hellenistic times, boys and girls attended privately funded elementary schools, but formal education beyond this level was exclusively for boys.

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Charles William Lewis, Jr.; Walters Art Museum, 1946, by gift.
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