Table of Contents

Preface. Part 1: The Historical Background. 1. Early Roman Upbringing. 2. Education within the Family. 3 Education Within the Family (continued). 4. Primary Schools and ‘pedagogues’. 5. Schools of Grammar and Literature. 6. The Rhetoric Schools and Their Critics. 7. Cicero and the Ideal of Oratorical Education. 8. The Roman Student Abroad. 9. Education In a Decadent Society. Part 2: Conditions of Teaching. 10. The Problem of Accommodation. 11. Equipment organization; discipline. 12. The Hazards of a Fee-Paying System. Part 3: The Standard Teaching Programme. 13. Primary Education: reading, writing and reckoning. 14. The Grammatical Syllabus. 15: The Grammatical Syllabus (continued). 16. Study of the Poets. 17. Study of the Poets (continued). 18. Progress Into Rhetoric: preliminary exercises. 19. Declamations on historical themes. 20. Learning the Art of the Advocate. 21. Declamation as a Preparation for the Lawcourts. Conclusion. List of Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index.