Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

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

Before Patroclus entered the classroom, he saw many children sitting inside.If Patroclus didn’t want to sit outside the stone pillars and was exposed to the sun for a long time, he could only sit in the back row.He was not very happy, and at first glance they were all boys (although the senate has agreed to the proposal of "girls can also go to school", but the traditional habits for many years still allowed them to make restrictions, men and women can not be in the same classroom) , Usually the inferior temperament began to attack.

He was carrying a folding wooden chair, squeezed straight forward, and shouted loudly: "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 looks very tall. Everyone, because of fear of resignation, has a child to stand up and accuse Patrocros.

The two did not give in to each other, and because of the conflict of words and mouth, they developed their hands and feet. When the teacher arrived, they were seeing Patroclus falling the boy to the ground.

He hurried to stop and asked the reason for the fight, and immediately sent the culprit to the penalty station outside the classroom.

Patroclus was dissatisfied.

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

Although Patroclus was stubborn, he knew the importance and walked out of the classroom obediently.Who knew the beaten boy took the opportunity to give him a butt, and the teacher shouted angrily: "You also sent me to the penalty station!"

After dealing with the fight, the teacher put a big hourglass on the wooden table, then sat on the wooden chair, took out the roster of students, and said to the children sitting around him: "From today, I am the classroom number one Professor Li, you teachers who know Greek writing, my name is Onatas..."

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"Hey, big man, I'm Stiflos, the adopted son of Amintas. What's your name?" The grudges between the boys come and go quickly, and the boy standing outside the classroom feels helpless Can't help saying to his opponent just now.

"Patrocros, son of Parian Andros." He responded casually, then thought of something, and asked quickly: "Your father is Amintas! Which Amintas?!"

"Of course it was the brave Amintas of the First Legion!" Stiflos said proudly.

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

The two little boys got together...

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In the past two years, Dionysius had a consequence of unifying the military operations in southeast Sicily-many citizens of southeastern Sicily were forced to flee their homes, most of which were attracted by the Dionysian Immigration Act. Came to Turi, not too far from Sicily.

Sicily, as the earliest place for Greeks to develop colonies in the Western Mediterranean, not only developed agriculture and commerce, but also had closer cultural exchanges with the native Greek culture. Its cultural heritage is deeper than the city-states of the Italian peninsula, so some Sicilians passed Ansita smoothly North's test has become a teacher of the Dionysian Union, and Onatas is one of them.

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

The school does not have a unified textbook. The content and progress of the professors are determined by the teachers themselves. However, the school requires that after three school years, students in primary education must be able to recognize and write at least one thousand Greek words, be able to pronounce and read reading letters accurately, And can write short articles with fluent language and clear expression, so that students can successfully pass the test to enter the secondary education.Moreover, each teacher’s teaching performance is evaluated every year. A teacher who has performed poorly for three consecutive years will be disqualified, which means that he will be deprived of all the rights Dionysia 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. However, when he first learned knowledge, his parents hired teachers to come to one-on-one professors at home. Now that we have to face more than 30 students in school, how can we ensure the effectiveness of teaching?

Onatas thought carefully beforehand, so he punished the two fighting children as soon as he came in, and after the roll call, the words severely emphasized the need to observe the discipline of the classroom, and the students who violated will be criticized and punished. , Serious will be deported from school.

As a result, the originally noisy classroom became quiet.

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 of limestone, mixed with animal fats and other substances, and dried.Onatas had tried it in advance, and the writing on the black wall was very clear, and it could be seen clearly when standing in the back row of the classroom.

Facing more than 30 pairs of curious eyes, Onatas couldn't help but feel very emotional: an emerging city-state alliance pays so much attention to the quality education of citizens, not only creating an unprecedented teaching system in the Greek city-state, but also attracting with various preferential conditions High-quality gentiles serve as teachers, and even teaching supplies are devoted to careful research and production. How lucky are the children living in this alliance!

At this moment, he was already a citizen of Dionysia, and he felt a sense of pride. He supported the flat wall with his left hand, and wrote a string of letters on the wall with a white pen in his right hand: "Teaching you to learn the Greek alphabet Before, I hope you know the word'Dionia'! Whether you are Greek or Lucanian, you live in Dionysia, grew up in Dionysia, and will be Dionysia in the future Asian citizen, so read aloud with me,'Dai-Ao-Ne-Ya...'"

"Dionysia!..."

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For the children of most city-state citizens, under the guidance of their parents, they have begun to learn the characters at the age of six or seven. Therefore, compared with the students who are actively answering questions, the progress of Patroclus is difficult.

But when he came to the arithmetic class, he showed his strong sensitivity to numbers when he was in the market with his mother since he was young, and even the teachers who came out of the Mathematics Research Institute paid attention to his performance.

By noon, the classroom teaching was over.

The Greeks used to eat two meals a day in the morning and evening. Affected by Davos and military training, the citizens of Dionysia have become accustomed to three meals in the morning, middle and evening. Far away like Patroclus, who had been notified by the school in advance, prepared dry food at noon, and some children went to the city from domestic slaves to buy lunch...

In the afternoon, it is mainly outdoor classes: girls are dancing and music, and the priests of the Temple of Hera are invited to teach; boys are sports training, running, and long jump, which are also interspersed with some of the simplest military exercises, such as queuing , Formation, overall advancement, etc. are taught by crippled veterans, so that children can cultivate the spirit of martial arts from an early age, and gradually understand and become familiar with the formation changes and some basic tactics of Dionysia’s light and heavy infantry, and understand unity And cooperation, when they reach adulthood, they can easily be integrated into the army once they are called.In this regard, Davers and the Senate have humbly borrowed some of Spartan's practices.

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

Children chase me, use your feet to flexibly control a leather ball with a rounded appearance filled with inflatable belly, filled with each other, passing, passing until the ball is kicked into the goal... …

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"The avenue we originally designed, the trees are too close to the road, over time, the roots of the trees are easy to drill out of the road and destroy the roadbed, Turui-Amendola La Boulevard has been in this situation many times, ... and now Pedestrians, pack cars, and carriages are all walking on the avenue. When the day is busy, the avenue is full of people and livestock, which is not only easy to cause long-term blockages, but also has many accidents of hitting people...

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

Daveus listened to his explanation while reading the "Avenue Reconstruction Plan" written by Herculed Jr.Hearing this, he couldn't help but feel shocked.

It should be admitted that when the avenue was built, there were some defects in his design, such as the problem of street trees. For example, it was not expected that the development of Dionysia was so rapid. It took more than a year and the four-ma wide avenue was not enough... …

But what he didn’t expect was that Heracled Jr. 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 age of science and technology. In the middle and late period of the Roman Republic, there were already perfect avenues, sidewalks, A complete set of road systems such as drains.

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

Heracled Jr. weighed and said, "Master Sir, if a gentile departs from Crotone, he will walk to Turui. After a long walk, he is tired, thirsty, and hungry. He doesn’t know how far ahead there is a town? Where can I eat? Where can I stay? For the convenience of pedestrians, can we set up a stone monument beside the avenue every other distance to mark the distance between nearby towns... and ......Well, aren't we building a post? You can also engrave the distance of the post on the stele, so that pedestrians can see the stele and plan their own itinerary according to the above tips to avoid sleeping in the wild at night..."