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jamie are are forgeting Roman Empire was a cluster fuck of cultures... all of the knowledge, wealth came from rome, the rest of the empire was made up of broken cultures now forced to live as the romans, we are talking about tons of different languages and cultures. the common person in that time did not know how to read or write; they were farming and fighting to expand the empire for rome. you can google post all day long on how ROME had schools b/c it doesn't matter, literacy was quite a problem back then. Besides even in your post you have a greek slave teaching a roman , i've never heard about uber educated slaves, or how is a greek slave going to communicate w/ a roman, eygptian, indian, or w/ any tribe member for that matter? i forgot they were so well educated they all knew 10+ languages back then
I haven't "googled" but one thing in this entire discussion and it was about the English translation of the Bible.

I looked up some of the information in the ENCYCLOPEDIA to verify what I had suspected or wasn't 100% clear about. Again, you want to re-invent the wheel but you haven't said but one place where you're getting your info from.....a documentary on TV . We all KNOW that TV is the most accurate form of research.

Do a little research yourself and you'll see that what I'm saying is far more accurate than your documentary on TV.

Greek slaves were far more educated than commoners in the early Roman Empire. They had to know how to read and write as part of their duties because they not only served their masters in the normal way, but they often served as basically a secretary to them as well. Remember, they were the ones that transcribed books and took down info for their masters since most Romans felt that their life stories were part of history to be passed down.