Pendidikan di Yunani Kuno "didemokratisasi" pada abad ke-5 SM, dipengaruhi oleh Sofis, Plato dan Isokrates. Kemudian, pada zaman Helenistik dari Yunani Kuno, Pendidikan di sekolah gimnasium dianggap esensial terutama dalam budaya Yunani. Nilai Pendidikan fisik bagi bangsa Yunani dan Romawi Kuno secara historis telah menjadi kekhasan.

Referensi

= Sumber primer (Yunani Kuno)

= Aristotle. Athenian Constitution. Wikisource. See original text in Perseus program. Lycurgus, Contra Leocratem. Aristophanes (2002). Lysistrata and Other Plays. New York: Penguin Classics. Plutarch. The Training of Children, c. 110 CE. . See original text in [1]. Plutarch (1960). The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives. New York: Penguin Classics. Xenophon (28 January 2010). Xenophon on the Spartans. Ancient History Sourcebook. . See original text in [2].

= Sumber sekunder

= Marrou, Henri-Irénée (1956). A History of Education in Antiquity. University of Wisconsin Press. Adkins, Lesley and Roy A. (2005). Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece. New York: Facts On File, Inc. Downey, Glanville (May 1957). "Ancient Education". The Classical Journal. 52 (8): 337–345. Ed. Sienkewicz, Thomas J (2007). Ancient Greece: Daily Life and Customs. 1. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, Inc. Ed. Sienkewicz, Thomas J (2007). Ancient Greece: Education and Training. 2. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, Inc. Mavrogenes, Nancy A (May 1980). "Reading in Ancient Greece". Journal of Reading. 23 (8): 691–697. Pomeroy, Sarah B. (2002). Spartan Women. Oxford: Oxford University Press.