children & education in rome

Question 1

act of acknowledging a child

Answer 1

susceptio

Question 2

who banned murder of babies

Answer 2

romulus

Question 3

what happened to a child if father refused to acknowledge him

Answer 3

exponere “exposed” to the street by slaves

Question 4

first 8 days of babies life

Answer 4

primordia

Question 5

baby

Answer 5

pupus

Question 6

naming ceremony

Answer 6

dies lustricus/dies nomium/nominalia

Question 7

how many days after birth was naming ceremony

Answer 7

girls- 8

boys- 9

Question 8

cradle

Answer 8

cunae

Question 9

litter for carrying a baby by 2 men

Answer 9

lectica

Question 10

amulet worn around neck to protect child from evil eye

Answer 10

bulla

Question 11

evil eye

Answer 11

fascinatio

Question 12

who brought the bulla custom to the romans

Answer 12

etruscans

Question 13

what did plebians use as a bulla

Answer 13

leather, not gold

Question 14

what was a second purpose of a bulla

Answer 14

protetced triumphant generals from envy

Question 15

rattle

Answer 15

crepundia

Question 16

spinning tops

Answer 16

turbines

Question 17

hoops

Answer 17

trochi

Question 18

balls

Answer 18

pilae

Question 19

knucklebones

Answer 19

tali

Question 20

if an educated slave taught other children, what could he keep

Answer 20

peculium- monetary presents

Question 21

litterator

Answer 21

elementary school teacher

Question 22

what was taught in elementary school

Answer 22

• reading, writing, arithmetic
• pronunciation
• writing with stylus on tablet

Question 23

used paper

Answer 23

palimpsestus

Question 24

after children acquired dexterity, what did they use to write

Answer 24

papyrus and ink

Question 25

what was used in math

Answer 25

abacus

Question 26

grammaticus

Answer 26

teachers at grammar school

Question 27

what was taught at grammar schools

Answer 27

• greek poets and language

- geography, myth, history, ethics, music, geometry

Question 28

teacher of rhetoric

Answer 28

rhetor

Question 29

public speaking

Answer 29

narratio/declamatio

Question 30

debate class

Answer 30

suasoria

Question 31

what was taught at rhetoric schools

Answer 31

creating dialogue for famous people

Question 32

shed-like attachment where class was held

Answer 32

pergula

Question 33

who in rome were usually teachers

Answer 33

freedmen/slaves

Question 34

fee payed to teachers out of the generosity of patrons

Answer 34

honorarium

Question 35

school hours

Answer 35

before sunrise to noon

Question 36

how did students see at school in the morning

Answer 36

candles

Question 37

market days (no school)

Answer 37

nundinae

Question 38

accompanied children to school and tutored them

Answer 38

paedagogus

Question 39

carried child’s books

Answer 39

pedisequi/capsarii

Question 40

apprenticeship

Answer 40

tirocinium

Question 41

voluntary apprenticeship to study law

Answer 41

tirocinium fori

Question 42

apprenticeship to study administration and war

Answer 42

tirocinium militae

Question 43

voluntary staff of young men who accompanied generals

Answer 43

cohors

Question 44

march 17 holiday

Answer 44

liberalia

Question 45

what did men give up of liberalia

Answer 45

bulla and toga praetexta

Question 46

give another name for toga praetexta

Answer 46

insignia pueritiae

Question 47

where was the bulla hung on liberalia

Answer 47

on hearth (to the lares)

Question 48

where were offerings made on liberalia

Answer 48

to liber on capitoline