Education in classical antiquity

public meeting place in Classical Athens

thumb|Isocrates, shown here in a copy of a bust from [[Villa Albani in Rome, was one of the foremost thinkers about paideia.]] Paideia (/paɪˈdeɪə/; also spelled paedeia; ) referred to the rearing and education of the ideal member of the ancient Greek polis or state. These educational ideals later spread to the Greco-Roman world at large, and were called humanitas in Latin.

Overview of education in ancient Rome

profession in the Greco-Roman world responsible for the 2nd stage in the education system, teaching classics such as Homer and Virgil and the correct way of speaking, before a boy moved on to study under the rhetor

The Hermeneumata (; also known as the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana or Hermeneumata pseudo-Dositheana) are anonymous instructional manuals written in the third century CE to teach the Greek language to Latin-speaking people in the Roman Empire, and to teach Latin to Greek-speakers. The word Hermeneumata means "translations" or "interpretations".