CLST 100 Lecture 24: Imperial Elite Education.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 100
• Professor: M Barbara Reeves

Document Summary

Imperial elite education: everyone in roman empire getting common education which makes them all roman in spite of where they came from, in slide: quote from tacitus (underlined important parts) to accustom to rest a part of their servitude. , rhetoric is the final stage of education (important for roman elites in politics, in court, what we would consider as university level, not many people got there. I learned how to read the letters on public inscriptions how to divide things into hundreds and work out percentages, and weights, measures, and currency. (petronius, satyricon 58,7: what all free members of society would receive, allows you to function in society, used abacuses, have writing tablet where all would carry to school, wax, and metal writing implements with sharp points so can write, then smooth off after so write again, in slide: bilingual (greek and latin) school text.