Moral Views of Education in Ancient Rome

Abstract

The article with a series of quotations of different authors from moral and ethical view elucidates relations to the education in ancient Rome which was, on the first side, spread within the old rnores rnaiorurn and, on the other side, influenced by vi­ vacious and fertile Greek creativeness, not always in concord with valid Roman mo­ ral norms and ethical principles. On the basis of selected quotations, the article is concluded by hypothesis about one of the reasons for manumission of enslaved Greek pedagogues.