Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 48: Dionia School (3)

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Dionia’s classroom is a cube with a height of 3.5 meters. It is a colonnade structure. Except for a brick wall built in the north, the inner surface is covered with cement and plaster to keep the wall smooth and painted. The black paint, the other three sides are transparent, the roof is supported by countless stone pillars, so as to ensure sufficient light, so it is an open building.

Patroclus hadn't even entered the classroom when he saw many children sitting in it. If Patroclus didn't want to sit outside the stone pillars and exposed to the sun for a long time, he could only sit in the back row. He was not very happy. At first glance, they were all boys (although the Senate agreed to the proposal that "girls can also go to school", but the traditional habits for many years have allowed them to make restrictions, and men and women cannot be in the same classroom) , The usual stubborn temper began to break out.

He carried the folding wooden chair, squeezed straight forward, and shouted: "Go back! Give me a place!"

Most of the boys in the classroom are only seven or eight years old, so the 13-year-old Patroclus seems to be a tall man. Because everyone is afraid of retreat, a child has stood up and blamed Patroclus.

The two refused to give way to each other, and they started to move their hands and feet due to the conflict of tongue. When the teacher arrived, they saw Patroclus throw the boy to the ground.

He hurriedly stepped forward to stop, and after asking the reason for the fight, he immediately sent the culprit to the penalty station outside the classroom.

Patroclus refuses to accept.

The teacher said sternly: "If you don't want to be punished, then you won't have to come to school again!"

Even though Patroclus was stubborn, he knew the severity and walked out of the classroom obediently. Who knew that the boy who was beaten took the opportunity to give him a kick, and the teacher yelled, "You give me a penalty stop too!"

After handling the fight, the teacher put a big hourglass on the wooden table, then sat on the wooden chair, took out the student roster, and said to the children sitting around him: "From today, I am this The teacher in Classroom One who teaches you to know Greek characters, my name is Onatas..."

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"Hey, big man, I'm Stiflos, Ammentas' adopted son, what's your name?" The grudges between the boys came and went quickly, standing outside the classroom, feeling The helpless boy couldn't help but said to his opponent just now.

"Patroclus, son of Pariandoros." He replied casually, and then thought of something, hurriedly asked: "Your father is Amintas! Which Amintas?!"

"Of course it is the brave Amintas of the First Legion!" Stephros said proudly.

"My father Pariandoros is a soldier under your father Amintas." Patroclus said in surprise.

So the two little boys got together...

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In the past two years, a consequence of the military operations of Dionysius to unify southeastern Sicily is that many people in the city-states of southeastern Sicily were forced to flee their homes, most of which are subject to the Dionian Immigration Act. Attracted and chose to come to Turii, not too far from Sicily.

As the first place where Greeks developed and colonized the Western Mediterranean, Sicily not only developed agriculture and commerce, but also had closer cultural exchanges with Greece. Its cultural heritage was deeper than that of the city-states on the Italian peninsula, so some Sicilians went well. Passed the test organized by Ancitanos and became a teacher of the Dionian League. Onatas was one of them.

He chose to become a teacher of the newly established Dionian School. Although the salary is not as high as that of private school teachers, he can immediately become a Dionian citizen and share the land.

The school does not have a unified teaching material. The content and progress of the teaching are determined by the teachers. However, the school requires that after three school years, students in elementary education must be able to recognize and write at least 1,000 Greek characters and be able to pronounce accurately Recite reading letters, and be able to write short essays with clear language and clear meaning, so that students can successfully pass the test and enter the intermediate education. Moreover, each teacher’s teaching performance is assessed every year, and a teacher who has performed poorly for three consecutive years will be disqualified, which means that he will be deprived of all the rights that Dionia has given to teachers.

So Onatas has a sense of urgency in his heart. As a highly educated cultural person, he cannot allow himself to lose to other teachers, but he learned knowledge from his parents who hired teachers to come to the home one-on-one. Professor, and now in the school, facing more than 30 students, how can we ensure the effectiveness of teaching?

Onatas had thought carefully beforehand, so as soon as he came in, he punished the two children who were fighting. Criticism and punishment, serious ones will be expelled from school.

As a result, the noisy classroom becomes quieter.

Onatas was very satisfied with the effect. He stood up and picked up a white pen from the wooden table. It is said that it was made by mixing limestone with animal fat and other substances, and then dried it. Onatas tried it beforehand, and the writing on the black wall was very clear, even standing in the back row of the classroom.

Faced with more than 30 pairs of curious eyes, Onatas couldn’t help feeling deeply: an emerging city-state alliance paid so much attention to the quality education of citizens. It not only created an unprecedented teaching system in the Greek city-states, but also Preferential conditions attract high-quality Gentiles to serve as teachers, and even teaching supplies spend energy to research and make carefully. How lucky the children living in this alliance should be!

At this moment, he, who is already a citizen of Dionia, felt a sense of pride. He supported the flat wall with his left hand, and wrote a series of letters on the wall with a white pen with his right hand: "I'm teaching you Before learning the Greek alphabet, I hope you know the word'Dionia'! Whether you are a Greek or Lucanian, you live in Dionia, grew up in Dionia, and you will be in the future. Citizen of Dionia, so say aloud with me,'Dai-O-Ni-Ya'..."

"Dionia!!!..."

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For the children of most city-state citizens, they have already begun to learn the language at the age of six or seven under the guidance of their parents. Therefore, compared with the students who actively answer the questions, Patroclus's learning progress appears to be difficult.

But when he arrived in the arithmetic class, he had been in the market with his mother since he was a child, and he was very sensitive to numbers. Even the teachers from the Institute of Mathematics paid attention to his performance. Gaze.

At noon, the classroom teaching is over.

Originally, the Greeks had two meals a day, morning and evening. Affected by Daves and military training, Dionian citizens have become accustomed to having three meals in the morning, lunch and dinner. Those who are far away, like Patroclus, have been notified by the school in advance to prepare dry food for noon, and some children go to the city from domestic slaves to buy lunch...

In the afternoon, there are mainly outdoor classes: girls are dancing and music, and the priests of the Temple of Hera are invited to teach; boys are training, running, and long jump, including some of the simplest military exercises. Columns, such as queuing, arraying, overall advancement, etc., are taught by disabled veterans, so that children can cultivate the spirit of martial arts from an early age, and gradually understand and familiarize themselves with the formation changes and some basic tactics of Dionia's light and heavy infantry. And know how to unite and cooperate, when they reach adulthood, they can easily integrate into the legion once they are called up. In this regard, Daves and the Senate humbly borrowed some of Spartan's practices.

After the military training, the children's favorite is a new ball game invented by the Archon Davers-football, because it is not as fierce as rugby and easy to get injured.

Children chase me and grab, use your feet to flexibly control a ball made of cowhide, stuffed with inflatable tripe, and nearly round in appearance, pass each other and pass, until the ball is kicked in. Goal...

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"In the avenue we originally designed, the trees are too close to the road. After a long time, the roots of the trees will easily burrow out of the road and damage the roadbed. Turye-Amendorara Avenue has seen this situation many times,... In addition, pedestrians, trucks, and horse-drawn carriages are all walking on the avenue. When the avenue is busy during the day, the avenue is crowded with people and livestock, which not only causes long-term obstructions, but also has many collisions with people...

My suggestion is to cut down the trees on both sides of the avenue, and build a road for pedestrians outside the drainage ditch, so that people and livestock walk separately without interfering with each other, and the avenue will become more smooth..."

Daves listened to his explanation as he watched Heraclide Jr's "Avenue Reconstruction Plan". Hearing this, he couldn't help but feel shocked.

It should be admitted that when the avenue was built, there were some flaws in his design, such as the problem of sidewalk trees. For example, he did not expect that the development of Dionia was so fast. After just over a year, a four-horse-wide avenue is not enough. Used...

But what he didn't expect was that Heraclid could think of paving the sidewalk so quickly. Of course, he knew that the sidewalk was not a new thing that only appeared in the technological age. It had a perfect road in the middle and late periods of the Roman Republic. , Sidewalks, drainage ditches and a complete set of road systems.

He exhaled lightly, and asked with a gentle expression: "What else needs to be improved?"

Jr. Heraclid deliberately said: "My lord Archon, if a Gentile starts from Crotone and has to walk to Turíy, after walking for a long time, he is tired and thirsty. , I’m hungry, he doesn’t know how far there is a town? Where is there a restaurant to eat? Where is a hotel to stay? For the convenience of pedestrians, can we put a stone monument beside the avenue at intervals to mark the distance to the nearby town... ...And...well, aren’t we building an inn? We can also engrave the distance of the inn on the stone tablet, so that pedestrians can plan their own itinerary according to the above tips to avoid sleeping in the wild at night... …"