Part 7 (1/2)

13 Cicero: Importance of the Twelve Tables in Education

14 Schreiber: A Roman Farmer's Calendar

15 Polybius: The Roman Character

16 Mommsen: The Grave and Severe Character of the Earlier Romans

17 Epitaph: The Education of Girls

18 Marcus Aurelius: The Old Roman Education described

19 Tacitus: The Old and the New Education contrasted

20 Suetonius: Atte

(a) Decree of the Roman Senate, 161 BC

(b) Decree of the Censor, 92 BC

21 Vergil: Difficulty experienced in Learning to Read

22 Horace: The Education given by a Father

23 Martial: The Ludi Magister

(a) To the Master of a Noisy School

(b) To a Schoolmaster

24 Cicero: Oratory the Aim of Education

25 Quintilian: On Oratory

26 Constantine: Privileges granted to Physicians and Teachers

QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS

1 Give reasons why the Laws of the Twelve Tables (12) were considered of such fundamental importance (13) in the education of the early Ro supplanted later by the Latinized _Odyssey_?

2 What does the Farmer's Calendar (14) reveal as to the character of Roman life?

3 Contrast the Roman character (15, 16) with that of the Athenian

4 Compare the education of a Roirl in later A Marcus Aurelius (18) and Tacitus (19), what is your judgment as to the relative merits of the old and the new education: (_a_) as a ed conditions of Imperial Rome?

6 How do you account for the attempts of the conservative officials of the State to prohibit the introduction of Greek higher schools (20 a-b) proving so unsuccessful?

7 Co 6) and Latin (21) Either and English

8 What type of higher educational advantages does the selection fro in Roman cities? Compare with present- day advanced education

9 What do Martial's Epigrams to the Roman schoolmasters (23 a-b) indicate as to the nature of the schools, school discipline, and social status of the Roman primary teacher?

10 Do the selections from Cicero (24) and Quintilian (25) satisfy you that oratory was a sufficiently broad idea for the higher education of youths under the Empire? Why?

11 What does the decree of Constantine (26) indicate as to the social status of the higher teachers under the Empire?