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Often appears with: trade, markets, and merchants · tiberius gracchus · the passions and the emotions · straits of messina · senate debates pursuit · rhodians and education · rhodian dignity · public money for school fees · public finance and debt · pontic salt-fish · justice as a virtue · gymnastics and music
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“No one was likely to make any inquiry for Demetrius or those who had gone with him.” Polybius, The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 2 (of 2) · observation
He contrasts ancient Greek education (gymnastics and music) with Roman education at the Campus Martius, arguing Romans’ morals were generally superior despite lacking Greek-style musical training.
an account of those institutions, to humanize the mind, to soften the temper, and to dispose it for performing all the social and moral duties of public and private life. In ancient Rome, the exercises of the Campus Martius answered the same purpose as those of the Gymnasium in ancient Greece, and they seem to have answered it equally well. But among the Romans there was nothing which corresponded to the musical edu…
Polybius criticizes the Rhodians for funding teachers from public money: after receiving a corn endowment from Eumenes, they use its interest for schooling rather than relying on private resources.
[Sidenote: Commissioners appointed for Greece and Asia, B.C. 162.] +23.+ At Rome, during the whole of the following day, no one was likely to make any inquiry for Demetrius or those who had gone with him. For those of his household who stayed in the city supposed him to have gone to Cerceii; and those at Anagnia were expecting him to come there too. The flight from Rome, therefore, was entirely unremarked; until one…