What children are for
Tim Whitmarsh: Roman Education, 7 June 2012
The School of Rome: Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education
by Martin Bloomer.
California, 281 pp., £34.95, April 2012,978 0 520 25576 0 Show More
by Martin Bloomer.
California, 281 pp., £34.95, April 2012,
“... marks as we received from you, standing and weeping. You cannot be angry at us for writing.’ Martin Bloomer offers this story as an example of the violence that was the Roman teacher’s prerogative to dispense – and which Roman schoolboys were trained to dole out in their turn. Bloomer’s Rome is an oppressive ... ”