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Plebeians and their letters
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Something occured to me today. I know the patricians and equestrians would be very literate, in Latin and Greek, their families being able to afford good tutors, free or not. But generally in pre-modern times, as you go lower down the rung, the education level goes with you.

Now, if a plebian was well off or comfortable, he'd have to know at least a basic amount of letters and numbers for transactions, reading the news in the Forum and such. Am I right? There would always be a large amount of illiteracy among the menial kind of slaves, and plebs not much better off. What about the average working Joe in Rome?
---AH Mervla, aka Joel Boynton
Legio XIIII, Gemina Martia Victrix
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Plebeians and their letters - by Aetius Helvius Merula - 08-09-2007, 07:01 AM
Re: Plebeians and their letters - by Tarbicus - 08-09-2007, 07:47 AM
Literacy - by Paullus Scipio - 08-09-2007, 08:18 AM
Re: Plebeians and their letters - by M. Demetrius - 08-09-2007, 12:43 PM
Re: Plebeians and their letters - by Carlton Bach - 08-09-2007, 05:24 PM

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