LATN 1001 : Culture Exam II
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What did they teach: ludus- earliest form of school (age 7ish, mostly boys; some girls, read, write, and count, teacher called the ludi magister or litterator, then moved on to a grammaticus. Instruct in literature of rome and greece: mostly upper class were bilingual (latin and greek, few moved to rhetor or rhetorician. Slavery and manumission of slaves ch. 7 p. 87-8. Name given to process of freeing a slave: manumism- formal legal process. Names given to a free slave? libertinus or freedman- former slave who purchased own freedom or freed by master: could become wealthy and powerful. Name which a slave took when he had been freed: praenomen and nomen- names of his or her former master, master (dominus) became patron (patronus) Function in roman society (field of mars: open, flat area north and west of the capitoline hill, used for military gatherings and exercises, where citizens gathered to vote in the comitia centuriata (political assembly)
