X RELIGION AND EDUCATION 293
You will excel in the games you love well,
all bloomingj athletic and fair,'
not learning to prate as your idlers debate
with marvellous prickly dispute.1
Health, hunting and moderation go together3 as Telekleides
puts it, thinking of olden times when the Areopagus ruled the
city.3
Pheidippides, on the other hand, the faithful disciple of the
New Education, turns some words of the selfish Pheres, the
father of Alkestis, into an attack on his own father: either way
the words are an expression of unscrupulous individualism.2
The rationalist view that it was a matter of knowledge and
teaching only to be good was opposed by those who were
aware of the strength of human passions; occasionally a con-
ciliatory combination of nature or character and upbringing
could be proposed. Euripides allows us to see something of
the discussion going on, which naturally was more serious
and more subtle than the straight fight between the Just and
the Unjust Logos.4 The answer of the New Education
herself is based solely on the idea of personal advantage and
enjoyment.5 'It is worth more than a thousand staters to take
the feebler side and yet to win the case.'6 The chief advantage
of rhetoric as taught by the sophists was its power of influenc-
ing decisions in the law-courtS5 but the new art with all its
tricks was to help in every situation of life. The man who had
mastered this art was therefore much sought after and well
paid.7 The issues, however, were much larger than that.
The boy no longer went to the -paidotri'beSj the old-fashioned
type of teacher, nor did he undergo the old-fashioned dis-
cipline.8 People were eager for new principles and rules, and
the old ideal of moderation no longer satisfied the young/ It
is one-sided and mistaken to regard the dissipation and
effeminacy of youth as the only results of modern education.
1 Cl002f.
2 Telekl 26, cf. 22, 24-5. Cf M Giffler, AJA LXII (1941), 224^
3 KA.CCOUCFI TTCctSES, Trorrepcc 6* ou KAocav 8oK£f$, 0.1415, Eur. Alk 691 Cf
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