a studious link

I find it very interesting that the Romans valued the Greeks enough to teach their children with a core of greek education. We do know that lituature was the core of this education and that the readings included Homer, Hesiods, Plato, Aristotle, Herdotus and Thucydides. As We grew up in school our education included the works of these writers. I was only 10 the first time my father and I read about Jason and the Argonauts. When I was in middle school my parents encouraged me to read books and history. On my own i discovered Homer, Herodotus and many others. I read these works several times before my education included them. We hear how education has declined in american schools and yet when speaking with my friends their children have no knowledge of these great works. Obviously they have been key to the education of the young since before the modern era. The stories and philosophies of these men were key in the daily lifes of the Romans and even today we can learn much from them. Man of the things we know about come from these men. Not only were these works key in the education of Roman children but they shaped the writings of this time. After all we read that Aeneid is written as a Roman version of Homer's Odyssey. Because of the great value placed on greek litature we see many libraries not only in households but in the cities of the empire.