Barbarians: Plutarch on the bad influence of barbarian slaves on Greek children (early second century CE)

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Ancient author: Plutarch (early second century CE), The Education of Children 6-7, 20 (link). Comments: In this treatise, Plutarch aims to give Greeks advice on how best to raise children. Among his suggestions is to avoid having foreigners among the enslaved in the home, supposedly because of their bad influence on the education and speech […]