Why do you think many of the teachers in ancient Rome were from ancient Greece?

Answer 1

When Rome came into closer contact with the Greeks, especially when they took over Tarentum, the largest Greek city in Italy, many Greek educators went to Rome. They introduced the Romans to the Greek educational system. The Roman elites liked their children being educated in this way because it involved the study or rhetoric, which was very useful to become a politician or a lawyer. In addition to this, Greek art, literature and philosophy became popular with Roman elites. The education of Roman children, after the elementary stage, was both in Latin and Greek and elite men were fluent in Greek. The pinnacle of the education of an elite man was a stay in Greece to study philosophy or rhetoric. Therefore, many of the teachers in ancient Rome were from Greece because they were sought.