Social Life At Rome in the Age of Cicero
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UL IblL Fi EDUCATION OF UPPER CLASSES 171 of that period of life which is now so full of interest to reEidera of memoirs, so full of intereat to ourselves ae we look hack to it in advancing years, It may be that we now exaggerate the nnportance of child- hood, but it ia equally certain that the Romans undervalued the importance of it- It may be that we over-estimate the value of oux public-school life, but it is certain that the Romans had no such sfihool life to be proud o£ Biography was at th...ia time a favourite form of literature, and some of the memoirs then written were available for use by later writers, Buch as Valerius Maximus. Suetonius, and Plutarch ; yet it ia curious how little has come down to us of the childhood or boyhood of the great men of the time, Plutarch indeed was deeply interested in education, including that of childhood, and we can hardly doubt that he would have used in his Roman Lives any information that came in bis way. He does tell us something, for which we are eternally indebted to him, of old Cato's method of educating his son,' and something toOj in his Life of Aemilius Paullus^ of the education of the eldest son of that family, the great Scipio Aemilianua.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
UL IblL Fi EDUCATION OF UPPER CLASSES 171 of that period of life which is now so full of interest to reEidera of memoirs, so full of intereat to ourselves ae we look hack to it in advancing years, It may be that we now exaggerate the nnportance of child- hood, but it ia equally certain that the Romans undervalued the importance of it- It may be that we over-estimate the value of oux public-school life, but it is certain that the Romans had no such sfihool life to be proud o£ Biography was at th...ia time a favourite form of literature, and some of the memoirs then written were available for use by later writers, Buch as Valerius Maximus. Suetonius, and Plutarch ; yet it ia curious how little has come down to us of the childhood or boyhood of the great men of the time, Plutarch indeed was deeply interested in education, including that of childhood, and we can hardly doubt that he would have used in his Roman Lives any information that came in bis way. He does tell us something, for which we are eternally indebted to him, of old Cato's method of educating his son,' and something toOj in his Life of Aemilius Paullus^ of the education of the eldest son of that family, the great Scipio Aemilianua.
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