The Teacher in Ancient Rome: The Magister and His World by Lisa Maurice

Author:Lisa Maurice [Maurice, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: History, Ancient, Rome, EDUCATION, General
ISBN: 9780739179093
Google: WQOaAAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013-08-22T21:54:44+00:00

Horace’s words imply that if one sent a child to school with those of a higher social class, his status should not be obvious to others, for appearance was important; and that even then it was no easy thing to follow this course.

Some teachers may also have been less than eager to accept slaves as pupils, since this would reflect upon their own status. A teacher who taught the children of free citizens would have been more eagerly sought out by pupils of noble status than one who taught slaves as well. A grammaticus’, or more rarely a rhetor’s distinction depended not only on numbers, but also on the type of student he taught. Quality as well as quantity was the mark of a successful teacher. Domitian codified this fact in law by ruling that a teacher who obtained his income from teaching slaves was to be excluded from the privileges granted to them by Vespasian.57 This law, which applies to medici (“doctors”) and praeceptores (“teachers”), was found inscribed upon a stele discovered in ancient Pergamum. The inscription runs:

avaritiam medicorum atque praeceptorum quorum ars, tradenda ingenuis adulesculentibus quibusdam, multis in disciplinam cubiculariis servis missis improbissime venditur, non humanitatis, sed augendae mercedis gratia, severissime coercendam iudicavi. quisquis ergo ex servorum disciplina mercedem capiet ei immunitas a divo patre meo indulta, proinde ac si in aliena civitate artem exerceat, adimenda est.

I have decided that the greed of doctors and teachers should be severely restricted. Their profession, which should be entrusted to a few freeborn youths, is being sold, not through kindness but in order that income may be increased most disgracefully, to many bedroom-slaves who are sent to school. The immunity which was granted by my divine father will be taken away from a person who receives payment for instructing slaves, just as if he were practising his profession in a foreign city.58

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