Identifier: grandeurthatwasr00stobrich (find matches)
Title: The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933
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Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
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on found in Callipolis, The young men and the i lads and the boys and their teachers unite to confer a wreath I of honour upon one of the mathematical masters. The teachers j seem to have been subject to annual election or re-election. ) There were also visiting masters of special subjects. The I Greek secondary school tended to lay much stress upon athletics, 1 but it gave more attention to music and religion than similar j institutions of to-day. Reading, writing, and arithmetic together i with music, dancing, and drill were the staple subjects of the j elementary school. Rhetoric, which meant the study of j literature on the technical side, as well as the practice of^ declamations, was the main occupation in the high schools and ) the universities. But philosophy, moral and physical, was also j carefully studied. University professors often rose to real affluence. ; In the polite world of Rome, literature was extremely , fashionable. Everybody was writing and insisting upon 286 ! i
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Plate 83. HADRIANS VILLA, TIVOLI(See p. 296) ip. 2S5 THE GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE reading his compositions to his friends. These literary labourswere often pursued with amazing diligence. Both Pliny andhis uncle devoted themselves to reading and writing almost frommorning to night, and Pliny the Younger tells how he waslaughed at for carrying his notebooks with him even when hewas out boar-hunting. By the time he was fourteen he hadwritten a Greek tragedy. His sketch of a days doings at hiscountry villa shows the literary perseverance of a Romangentleman. He rose at six and began to compose in his bed-room. Then he would summon his secretary to take down theresult from dictation. At ten or eleven he would continue hiswork in some shady colonnade, or under the trees in thegarden, after which he drove out, still reading. A shortsiesta, a walk, declamation in Greek and Latin, after the habitof Cicero, gymnastic exercise, and the bath, filled the spaceuntil dinner-time arrived. Even during di

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