Children and Education in Rome

Question 1

What was “lifting”, or otherwise known as the act of acknowledging a child?

Answer 1

Susceptio

Question 2

Who banned the murdering of a baby?

Answer 2

Romulus

Question 3

What was done if the father did not wish to acknowledge a child?

Answer 3

The child was esposed by a slave on the streets

Question 4

What were the first 8 days of the child called?

Answer 4

Primordia

Question 5

What was the naming ceremony 9 days after a son’s birth, or 8 days after a daughter’s birth?

Answer 5

Dies lustricus, Dies niminum, or nominalia

Question 6

What was the term for a cradle?

Answer 6

Cunae, cunabula, or cunaria

Question 7

What was a litter for carrying a baby by 2 men?

Answer 7

Lectica

Question 8

What was the two concave pieces of gold containing an amulet worn around the neck to protect a child from the fascinatio (evil eye)?

Answer 8

Bulla aurea

Question 9

What did plebians use for a bulla rather than gold?

Answer 9

leather

Question 10

The bulla protected triumphant generals from what?

Answer 10

Envy

Question 11

What was the term for rattle?

Answer 11

Crepundia

Question 12

What was the term for spinning tops?

Answer 12

Turbines

Question 13

What was the term for hoops?

Answer 13

Trochi

Question 14

What was the term for balls?

Answer 14

Pilae

Question 15

What were the knucklebones for playing jacks?

Answer 15

Tali

Question 16

What were monetary presents that a master could give his slaves?

Answer 16

Peculium

Question 17

Who was an elementary school teacher?

Answer 17

Litterator

Question 18

Who was one who taught grammar?

Answer 18

Grammaticus

Question 19

Who taught public speaking or rhetorics?

Answer 19

Rhetor

Question 20

Term for prose or public speaking?

Answer 20

Narratio

Question 21

What was a debate class?

Answer 21

Suasoria

Question 22

What was the shed like attachment to a public building where classes were usually held?

Answer 22

Pergula

Question 23

Who were usually teachers?

Answer 23

Slaves or freedmen

Question 24

How much was a litterator paid?

Answer 24

$3

Question 25

How much was a Grammaticus paid?

Answer 25

Between $15 - $18

Question 26

When did the school day start and end?

Answer 26

Before sunrise until noon

Question 27

What days was school out, also known as market days?

Answer 27

Nundinae

Question 28

What was the slave that accompanied a child to school and could also tutor them?

Answer 28

Paedagogus

Question 29

Who carried a child’s books?

Answer 29

Pedisequi or capsarii

Question 30

What was an apprenticeship, also known as a “rookie-ship”?

Answer 30

Tirocinium

Question 31

What was a voluntary apprenticeship to study law?

Answer 31

Tirocinium fori

Question 32

What was an apprenticeship to study administration and war?

Answer 32

Tirocinium militiae

Question 33

Who were the voluntary staff of young men who accompanied generals?

Answer 33

Cohors

Question 34

What was the Liberalia?

Answer 34

The day when a boy gave up his bulla and toga praetexta to become a man

Question 35

What instrument which used beads that slide along a series of wires or rods, was used to do harder math?

Answer 35

Abacus