11-29-2012, 08:29 PM
Quote:There were all sorts of centurions - many of them directly commissioned from the equestrians and therefore educated men, others who spent their whole careers in peacetime, and so on. So not all of them were the barking hobnailed drill-sergeants of popular imagination!On this note, I always wondered if the writing exercises at Vindolanda (e.g. TV II 118,119, 121, TV IV 854-6) were necessarily done by the children of Cerialis as is often assumed, or if they represent in part examples of adult learning. Not even necessarily by centurions though - if the Roman military was really a vehicle for literacy as is also argued, there must have been some educational method involved for soldiers at all levels.
