The school of Rome
Subtitle: Latin studies and the origins of liberal education
By: W. Martin Bloomer
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780520255760
Subjects: Latin language; Education; History; Study and teaching; Humanistic Education
Description: From the publisher. This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. W. Martin Bloomer details the processes, exercises, claims, and contexts of liberal education from the late first century BCE to the third century CE -- the epoch of rhetorical education. He examines the adaptation of Greek institutions, methods, and texts by the Romans, and traces the Romans' own history of education. Bloomer argues that while Rome's enduring educational legacy includes the seven liberal arts and a canon of school texts, its practice of competitive displays of reading, writing, and reciting were intended to instill in the young social as well as intellectual ideas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-265) and index.
Table of contents: title: In search of the Roman school; title: First stories of school; title: The school of impudence; title: The manual and the child; title: The child an open book; title: Grammar and the unity of curriculum; title: The moral sentence; title: Rhetorical habitus.