CLA233H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mos Maiorum, The Dresden Files Short Fiction, Making Money
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Cato wrote history in such a way that his son could read it chaste equivalent of a parent not swearing in front of children also a very moral education history was all about morality. Mass illiteracy rome was very lenient toward illiteracy did not have to be literate to function in daily life very fluid definition of literacy in roman society. Main slave education was on how to do work intellectual education for slaves to become secretaries, etc. for their master. Education was at the discretion of the master. A day at school by the first century b. c. More institutionalized schooling borrowed this idea from the greeks three different levels of schooling. A utilitarian approach not all people found literature-based education to be important or useful. Petronius does not find it important boasts of his utilitarian education. Pliny the younger lectures with quintillian on the latin language. Augustine himself was not from a wealthy family became a rhetor.
