Normally I'd mention this as part of of the ClassiCarnival, but a bit more comment is required ... amongst the other eyecandy over at Biblilodyssey are some images from Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno (New Chronicle and Good Government). The whole thing is online, actually. Here's the image of interest at BibliOdyssey:
If that doesn't embed, the original is here .... there's one with a similar theme (from the same work) here.
Anyhoo, the image reflects an image which should be well known to anyone who has done Roman Social Life ... the student on the back of another student to facilitate a beating by the teacher. I've always thought it a strange image and thought it came from a sarcophagus somewhere, but I realize the image was one of those illustrations from a 19th century work which I haven't been able to find a full version of online. So ... is that image of which I speak on a sarcophagus somewhere? Or was the 19th century image a reflection of 'more recent' practices? Whatever the case, the Spanish examples from the Coronica provide an interesting attestation of continuity of, er, pedagogical methods.
If that doesn't embed, the original is here .... there's one with a similar theme (from the same work) here.
Anyhoo, the image reflects an image which should be well known to anyone who has done Roman Social Life ... the student on the back of another student to facilitate a beating by the teacher. I've always thought it a strange image and thought it came from a sarcophagus somewhere, but I realize the image was one of those illustrations from a 19th century work which I haven't been able to find a full version of online. So ... is that image of which I speak on a sarcophagus somewhere? Or was the 19th century image a reflection of 'more recent' practices? Whatever the case, the Spanish examples from the Coronica provide an interesting attestation of continuity of, er, pedagogical methods.