ABSTRACT
Freedom, Greek and Roman style In his famous letter "On Liberal Education," Seneca condemns the corrupted and useless tradition of liberal education in the Roman Empire in the first century AD. When he surveyed the contemporary (c. AD 60) practice of liberal education, he was repulsed by the degraded and effete instruction offered to the free (überaUs) men of Rome. But while he carefully catalogues the "useless" facts imparted to young, free Romans and attacks liberal education as he finds it, he also carefully constructs an argument for the importance of "true" liberal education.
