What did the Romans call a primary school teacher?

"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;">The Romans did not have

a formal system of education and there were no state schools. The

children of very rich people had private tuition at home. For other

children teachers set up their own classes for a fee. They held the

classes where they could, including in the back of shops, separated

from the rest of the shop by just a curtain, and in the street. The

children of those who could afford some education went to classes

until the age of 10-11 and learnt to read and write and basic

maths. These elementary classes were run by a teacher called

litterator. Children of people who could afford it went to better

classes and continued on to the classes run by the grammaticus from

the age of 9 to 12 until the age of 14-15. They improved their

writing, learnt oration, expressive poetic reading and poetic

analysis. Pupils were expected to have some knowledge of spoken and

written Greek and classes were run in both languages.

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"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;">A small number of

children went on to study with the rhetor. They studied rhetoric,

which was important to become a lawyer or a politician. These

studies came in two branched deliberative oratory, in which the

pupils learned the skills for political debate, and judicial

oratory, which was to undertake a career as a lawyer.

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