Education in Ancient Rome: From the Elder Cato to the Younger Pliny |
Contents
Early Roman upbringing | 3 |
Education within the family | 10 |
Scenes from childhood Roman sarcophagus Musée du Louvre | 13 |
verses of Menander with teachers model | 20 |
Paedagogus with lamp carrying child Greek terracotta | 24 |
Primary schools and pedagogues | 34 |
Philocalus primary schoolmaster of Capua Roman funerary monu | 43 |
Epaphroditus Greek grammaticus at Rome Roman portraitstatue | 50 |
Roman inkpots British Museum Department of Greek and Roman | 132 |
reading writing and reckoning | 165 |
Numbers symbolized by the fingers from the Regensburg MS | 167 |
The Grammatical syllabus | 189 |
The Grammatical syllabus continued | 198 |
Study of the poets | 212 |
Study of the poets continued | 227 |
preliminary exercises | 250 |
Schoolroom scene at Trier late Roman relief Rheinisches Landes | 56 |
Cicero and the ideal of oratorical education | 76 |
The Roman student abroad | 90 |
Education in a decadent society | 97 |
The diagram of an abacus on p 184 based on a miniature abacus | 109 |
The problem of accommodation | 115 |
School in the Forum at Pompeii engraving of a Roman wall | 118 |
Caricature of a school class Greek terracotta Musee du Louvre | 124 |
Declamations on historical themes | 277 |
Declamation as a preparation for the lawcourts | 309 |
a few lessons from the past | 328 |
List of abbreviations | 334 |
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