Paedagogi

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In the Roman Republic, the paedagogus, plural paedagogi or paedagogiani, [1] was a slave or a freedman who taught the sons of Roman citizens [2] the Greek language. [3] In the period of the Roman Empire, the paedagogus became the director of the paedagogium . [3]

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In the early Republic, there were no public schools, so boys were taught to read and write by their parents, or by educated slaves (paedagogi) usually of Greek origin. [4] [5] [6]

A representation of a paedagogus was painted as a graffito on the walls of the Palatine Paedagogium, and it represents his social and cultural formation, which is identified such a slave. [1]

In an inscription of the second century dedicated to the Roman emperor Caracalla, it lists twenty-four paedagogi. [2] In some cases, the title of paedagogus is connected with private elite families. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Being a paedagogus meant to obey conduct and duty laws. [2] In the imperial institution, the title of paedagogus refers to the duty of child-attendant or tutor rather than a teacher. [11] The other title of paedagogus refers to a variety of interrelated capacities related to the offspring of the imperial family and aristocracy: disciplina (academic and moral instruction), custodia (companion and protector) and decorum (directives of precepts for public behaviour). [12] There is a third title which appears in three inscriptions and means the director of the paedagogium ( praeceptor ). [13]

In other texts and graphics, slaves are divided depending on their membership of a larger servile environment (paedagogium), freedpersons (paedagogi, paedagogiani, custodes and procuratores ) and a community of persons ( pueri , iuvenes , vernae domini nostri ). [14] [ clarification needed ]

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  1. 1 2 George 2013, p.  70, "Reading the Pages of the Domus Caesaris: Pueri Delicati, Slave Education, and the Graffiti of the Palatine Paedagogium".
  2. 1 2 3 George 2013, p.  73, "Reading the Pages of the Domus Caesaris: Pueri Delicati, Slave Education, and the Graffiti of the Palatine Paedagogium".
  3. 1 2 Lara Peinado, Federico; Cabrero Piquero, Javier; Cordente Vaquero, Félix; Pino Cano, Juan Antonio (2009). Diccionario de instituciones de la Antigüedad (in Spanish) (1ª ed.). Fuenlabrada (Madrid): Ediciones Cátedra (Grupo Anaya, Sociedad Anónima). p. 409. ISBN   9788437626123.
  4. ↑ Lecture 13: A Brief Social History of the Roman Empire by Steven Kreis. Written 11 October 2006. Retrieved 2 April 2007.
  5. ↑ Adkins, Lesley; Adkins, Roy (1998). Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 211. ISBN   0-19-512332-8.
  6. ↑ Werner, Paul (1978). Life in Rome in Ancient Times. Geneva: Editions Minerva S.A. p. 31.
  7. ↑ CIL 6.8982-6. Dedication (October, AD 198)
  8. ↑ CIL 6.1502
  9. ↑ CIL 6.7290, 9740
  10. ↑ cf. Dig. 33.7.12.32
  11. ↑ Mohler 1940, p. 267-273.
  12. ↑ Bradley 1991, p. 37-64.
  13. ↑ Bradley 1991, p. 71-72.
  14. ↑ George 2013, p.  93, "Reading the Pages of the Domus Caesaris: Pueri Delicati, Slave Education, and the Graffiti of the Palatine Paedagogium".

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