Roman Education

Typical steps in the education of an upper-class Roman boy in the late Republic:

Typical Ages	Teachers	Subjects
7-11	magister ludi	basic reading and writing
12-15	grammaticus	grammar, literature, sometimes some rudiments of rhetoric
16-18	rhetor	rhetoric

Many youths would finish their education with a trip to Greece (usually Athens), to study with study with Greek rhetoricians and philosophers

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