Reading in the Ancient Classroom

Brayden Hirsch, Department of Classical Studies, Boston University

What was it like to learn to read in antiquity? How did students experience the texts we call “classics” today?  In this talk we will get a glimpse into the ancient classroom, with an overview of the varieties of surviving evidence (literary accounts, papyri, ostraca, writing tablets, written colloquia) and examples of each.

Online: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83377569435

Co-sponsored by the University of Toronto Department of Classics and by the University of St. Michael’s College Division of Continuing Education.