ABSTRACT
Rome itself developed enormously in civic and architectural character, wealth from the provinces providing the capital for such growth. Although the fiction of the Republic was maintained with authority shared between the senate and Augustus as its servant in the office of First Citizen subject to a specific term of office, the old system was gone and the Roman Empire an established fact. The need for public literacy, and the correlative establishment of schools of elementary education throughout the western part of the Empire, created a demand for teachers. The change in Roman education that appears in the Empire seems to have been one of attempts at systematization of the formal structure, accompanied by a weakening of critical concern. In effect, Roman education in the sixth century had become encyclopedic in nature and content, in the pejorative sense of the term.
