I would be interested in the evidence that my "noble Romans" did read
for themselves in the way that scholars like Pliny (and Cicero and
Caesar) obviously did, and schoolboys. I am still unpacking my books
from moving into retirement and can't find the recent CQs. Perhaps I
will find the evidence t
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:54:16 +0100 (BST)
From: Don Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Robert Dyer wrote (inter much very interesting alia):
> I suspect that
> the Roman nobility seldom read texts for themselves, but listened to
> their slaves.
There is massive evidence from all p
On a slightly different tack on the first readings of the Aeneid, there
is an account that Parthenius, the Greek slave who seems to have taught
Virgil and others of the poets from Cisalpine Gaul (Cornelius Gallus, Cinna),
as I allege in my article "Where did Parthenius teach Vergil?" Vergilius
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