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Episode CVIII - A Lesson in Latin II

Emperors of Rome

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What's the Difference Between Literacy and Literacy?

People might have been able to read a little bit. For example, the first line of virgil's aeneid is scrawled all over pompeii. Sometimes we have literacy that we would regard as bad literacy. We'll have things scrawled up with basic grammar mistakes. So where we see mistakes it might represent sound rather than somebody who knows form or grammar.

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