het Paedagogium
The pedagogy is the name of a building from ancient Rome whose remains are on the southern slope of the Palatine Hill, on the side of the Circus Maximus. It is an elongated building with two rows of small rooms along a corridor.
The building had the function of a pedagogy, a Greek linguistic word meaning "school" and used by the Romans as a name for a school where slaves were trained (eg, Pliny the Younger, Letter VII, 27, 13). The building at the foot of the Palatine should have been the school for the pages in the imperial court.
The building was unveiled in 1856 when the Domus Gelotiana (House of Gelotus) was excavated where it lies behind. Whether the Paedagogium is an extension of the Domus Gelotiana or an independent building is not entirely clear. The Domus Gelotiana was taken by Caligula as a place to watch the games in the Circus Maximus (see Suetonius, Caligula 18). The pedagogy is based on the time of Domitian.
There are many graffiti found in the building from around 200 AD. which were written by the slaves who stayed there. On the graffiti the word paedagogium is used a number of times in the sense of exit de paedagogio ('departs from the pedagogy'), including Corinthus exit de paedagogio; Marianus Afer exit the paedagogio. With this, the slaves apparently pleased to be allowed away from the Pedagogory.
This graffiti also includes the earliest image found with the Christian cross, the so-called "Alexamenos graffito" (now visible in the Antiquarium on the Palatine). Alexamenos is pictured as he kneels for the crucified Christ with a donkey head, including the words Greek, "Alexamenos worships & lt; are & gt; god. '
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