Education

There was no compulsory public education. Up to the age of seven, children recived training in the home. After that, a boy whose parents could afford the cost to a private elemenatry school (ludus), where the teacher (litterator) taught him writting , and simple arithnetic. He often had an education slave, called a paedagogus, who served as tutor and accompanied him to school. Upon completing elementary school, the Roman boy attened grammer school, where the teacher (grammaticus) taught him Latin and Greek literature.


Next came the shool of rhetoric, or college, where the boy received training in oratory and politics. Finally, as a youth, he could travel abroad to Greece, Rhodes, or Asia Minor to take specialized courses in philosophy, law, and oratory.
As a rule, Roman girls did not attend school. instead they learned domestic arts from their mothers.

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