Open AccessPersius’ <i>cirrati</i> and the schooling of slaves
Author(s) -
Alan Booth
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1985.v53.i2.677
Subject(s) - political science , mathematics education , philosophy , linguistics , history , psychology
The cirrati mentioned in Persius’ first satire (29) have been taken for freeborn schoolboys. They should be identified rather as slave pages. Such seruuli would be trained to recite popular poetry by the ludi magister, and might thereafter serve their masters as cantores