1. Roman Education

2. Ludus - school Elementary school for boys; pay to go
Run by a ludi magister
Educated slave or freedman
Often Greek
Reading, writing, and arithmetic
Wax tablets & styluses
Rented room or outside

3. Discipline Paedagogus – Greek for “child leader” Corporal punishment
Escorted child to school; protected, disciplined
Another slave carried things for him
Corporal punishment
From teacher or paedagogus
Horace & Orbilius Plagosus

4. “Middle School” Run by a grammaticus (grammarian)
For richer families needing more education
Read Greek & Roman classics
Homer, Sophocles, and other Greeks
Horace and Vergil for Romans
Studied Greek even more than he had in elementary school

5. “High School”
Taught how to speak by a rhetor – imagine four years just with Mrs. Beach
Rhetor is, once again, a Greek
Much smaller number of students here – those with political ambitions

6. Science & Technical Subjects
Not covered much in most schooling
Liberal arts/humanities, “most important for civilized living”
Specialized teachers, typically Greeks, were paid a lot to teach science and math
Technical skills developed in an apprenticeship at a local business

7. Girls’ Education Schooled at home with boys until age of 7
Stayed home when boys went to school
Learned reading and writing, business accounting, house management
If a girl could speak advanced Greek and Latin she would fetch a high dowry

8. Another Quote from Horace
“Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artis intulit agresti Latio.”
Conquered, Greece has conquered the brute victor and brought her arts into rustic Latium.
Or, sometimes more simply: “Conquered, Greece conquered.”

9. Controversia
So then, like the debate in the book…who’s better, Greeks or Romans? Who truly did the conquering?
We’ll split up based on your answers.
Each side gets 5 minutes to prepare an argument and 3 to present it.
Each side then gets 3 minutes to prepare a counter-argument to the other side, then 2 minutes to present that.
Each time your side presents, you need a different person to argue the case. Pick them early!