The Dionian classroom is a cube with a height of three meters and a half, it is a colonnaded structure, except for a brick wall due north, the inner surface is paved with cement, painted with plaster, the wall is kept smooth, and painted with black lacquer, the other three sides are transparent, and the roof is supported by countless stone columns, thus guaranteeing sufficient light and renewal .

Before Patroclus entered the classroom, he saw that there were already quite a few children sitting inside. If Patroclus didn't want to sit outside the pillar and be exposed to the sun for a long time, he had to sit in the back row. He was not very happy, and when he saw that they were all boys (although the Senate agreed to the proposal that "girls can also go to school", but many years of traditional habits still made them make restrictions, and men and women could not be in the same classroom), and his usual stubborn temperament began to flare up.

He carried a folding wooden chair, squeezed straight forward, and shouted, "Stand back!" Make way for me! ”

Most of the boys in the classroom were only seven or eight years old, so 13-year-old Patroclus seemed tall and big, and everyone was afraid to retreat, but one of the children stood up and blamed Patroclus.

The two refused to give in to each other, and when the teacher arrived, Patroclus was seen throwing the boy to the ground.

He hurriedly stepped forward to stop it, and after asking the reason for the fight, he immediately sent the culprit to the punishment station outside the classroom.

Patroclus was not convinced.

The teacher said sternly: "If you don't want to accept the punishment, then you don't have to come to school again!" ”

Patroclus, though stubborn, knew what was important and obediently walked out of the classroom. Who knew that the boy who was beaten took the opportunity to kick him in the ass, and the teacher was so angry that he yelled: "You also give me a penalty station!" ”

After dealing with the fight, the teacher put a large hourglass on the wooden table, then sat on the wooden chair, took out the student register, and said to the children sitting around him: "From this day on, I will be the teacher who teaches you the Greek script in this classroom, my name is Onatas......"

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"Hey, big man, I'm Stephoros, Amintas's adopted son, what's your name?" The feud between the boys came and went quickly, and the boy who was standing outside the classroom, feeling very helpless, couldn't help but say to his opponent just now.

"Patroclus, son of Paliandoros." He replied casually, and then thought of something, and hurriedly asked, "Your father is Amintas!" Which Amintas?! ”

"Of course, the brave Amintas of the First Legion!" Stephors said proudly.

"My father, Paryandoros, was a soldier under your father, Amintas." Patroclus said in surprise.

The two little boys became warmer because of this......

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One consequence of Dionysius' military campaign to unify southeastern Sicily over the past two years was that many of the city-states of southeastern Sicily were forced to flee their homes, most of whom were attracted by the Ionian immigration law to Turri, not too far from Sicily.

As the earliest place for the Greeks to develop and colonize the Western Mediterranean, Sicily not only developed agriculture and commerce, but also had closer cultural exchanges with Greece, and its cultural heritage was deeper than that of the city-states of the Italian peninsula.

He chose to become a teacher at the newly established Dionian school, and although he was not paid as much as a private school teacher, he could immediately become a Dionian citizen and share the land.

There is no uniform textbook, and the content and pace of teaching are determined by the teacher, but the school requires that after three school years, students in primary education must be able to recognize and write at least 1,000 Greek characters, be able to pronounce and read letters accurately, and be able to write short texts with clear language and meaning, so that students can successfully pass the test and enter secondary education. In addition, every teacher is evaluated every year for their teaching performance, and a teacher who performs poorly for three consecutive years will be disqualified from teaching, which means that he will be deprived of all the rights that Dionia has given to teachers.

So Onatas has a sense of urgency in his heart, as a highly educated and literate person, he can't allow himself to lose to other teachers, but he originally learned knowledge when his parents hired teachers to teach one-on-one at home, and now he has to face more than 30 students in school, how can he ensure the effectiveness of teaching?

Onatas had thought carefully beforehand, so as soon as he came in, he first punished the two children who were fighting, and after the roll call, he sternly emphasized the need to abide by the discipline of the classroom, and the students who violated it would be criticized and punished, and in serious cases, they would be expelled from the school.

As a result, the otherwise noisy classroom becomes quiet.

Onatas was so pleased with the effect that he stood up and picked up a white pen from the wooden table, which is said to be made by boiling limestone and mixing some substances such as animal fat, and drying it. Onatas had tried it beforehand, and the writing on the black wall was so clear that he could read it clearly from the back of the room.

Facing more than 30 pairs of curious eyes, Onatas couldn't help but sigh with emotion: a new alliance of city-states attaches so much importance to the quality education of citizens, not only creating an unprecedented teaching system in the Greek city-states, but also attracting high-quality Gentiles to serve as teachers with various preferential conditions, and even the teaching supplies are spent on careful research and production, how lucky the children living in this alliance must be!

At this moment, he was already a citizen of Dionia, and he felt a sense of pride, and he supported the flat wall with his left hand, and wrote a string of letters on the wall with a white pen with his right hand: "Before I teach you to learn the Greek alphabet, I want you to know this word 'Dionia'!" It doesn't matter if you're a Greek or a Lucanian, you live in Dionia, you grew up in Dionia, you're going to be a citizen of Dionia, so you say aloud with me, 'Dio-Nia'......"

"Dionia!! ……”

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For most of the children of the citizens of the city-state, at the age of six or seven, they already began to learn to read and write under the guidance of their parents, so Patroclus's learning progress was difficult compared to his classmates who answered the questions enthusiastically.

But when it came to arithmetic class, he was trained by watching a stall in the market with his mother since he was a child, and he showed a strong sensitivity to numbers, and even the teachers who came out of the mathematics institute paid attention to his performance.

By noon, the teaching of the class is over.

Originally, the Greeks had two meals a day, morning and evening, and under the influence of Davers and military training, the citizens of Dionya had begun to get used to three meals in the morning, noon and dinner, and the children who lived in the city of Turiy could go home to eat, and those who lived farther away from home, like Patroclus, had been notified by the school in advance to prepare dry food for lunch, and some children were sent to the city to buy lunch by domestic slaves......

In the afternoon, it was mainly outdoor classes: dance and music for the girls, and the priests of the temple of Hera were invited to teach; For boys, sports training, running, long jump, interspersed with some of the simplest military exercises, such as queues, formations, overall marching, etc., are taught by crippled veterans, so that children can cultivate a martial spirit from an early age, and gradually understand and familiarize themselves with the formation changes and some basic tactics of the Dionian light and heavy infantry from an early age, and know how to unite and cooperate, and when they reach adulthood, they can easily integrate into the legion once they are drafted. In this respect, Davers and the Senate humbly borrowed some of the practices of Sparta.

After military training, the children's favorite was a new ball game invented by Archon Davers, football, because it was not as competitive and prone to injury as rugby.

The children chased after each other, nimbly controlling a ball sewn from cowhide, stuffed with inflatable tripe, with a near-round appearance, passing and passing each other until the ball was kicked into the goal......

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"The trees were too close to the road and over time, and the roots of the trees were prone to digging out of the road and damaging the roadbed, as has happened many times on the Turii-Amendora Boulevard,...... And now pedestrians, pack carts, and horse-drawn carriages all walk on the avenue. During the busy day, the avenue is crowded with people and livestock, which is not only easy to cause long-term blockage, but also has many accidents of hitting people......

My suggestion is to cut down the trees on both sides of the avenue and build another road outside the drain for pedestrians, so that people and livestock can go their own way without interfering with each other, and the avenue will become smoother......"

Davers listened to Heraclid Jr.'s "The Plan for the Reconstruction of the Avenue" as he read his explanation. Hearing this, he couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart.

It should be admitted that when the avenue was first built, there were some flaws in his design, such as the problem of street trees, such as not expecting Dionya to develop so rapidly, and after just over a year, the four-horse-wide avenue was not enough......

But what he didn't expect was that little Heraclid would be able to think of paving sidewalks so quickly, of course, he knew that sidewalks were not a new thing that only appeared in the age of technology, and that in the middle and late Roman Republic, there was already a complete system of avenues, sidewalks, drainage ditches, etc.

He exhaled lightly and asked with a gentle expression, "What else needs to be improved?" ”

"My lord," said Heraclid the Younger, "if a Gentile had to walk from Crotone to Turiy, and after a long walk, he was tired, thirsty, and hungry, and he knew not how far ahead he was in town?" Where can I eat? Where can I stay at a hotel? For the convenience of pedestrians, can we erect a stone monument next to the avenue at intervals to mark the distance of nearby towns...... And also...... Well, aren't we building a post station, you can also engrave the distance of the post station on the stone tablet, so that pedestrians can see the stone monument and plan their own itinerary according to the tips above, so as to avoid sleeping in the wild at night......"