Writing in the Greco-Roman World

"The skills and techniques that are necessary to be able to write any number of genres are taught in every educational system. Education in the Greco-Roman world was no different, though perhaps it did so with a rigor and thoroughness that would surprise those who are familiar only with current methods of teaching writing. Writing was also central to Greco-Roman education, at least in the latter stages of the curricular sequence. Just when and how writing was taught will be the burden of the following discussion of Greco-Roman education." Read further in this brief, but interesting article by Ronald F. Hock. You can find the article on the SBL site.
For further reading on 'reading and writing in the Greaco-Roman world, I would suggest you might turn to H.I. Marrou, A History of Education in Antiquity (London, 1956); HarryJ. Gamble, Books and Readers in the Early Church. A History of Early Christian Texts (New Haven, 1995), and Alan Millard, Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus (Sheffield, 2001).