In a message dated 08/07/1999 10:51:23 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Many of these were known as Classical Schools, meaning that they taught Latin > > and Greek. One has to but read the names of Southern cities to see the influence of these schools. Sparta, Carthage, Memphis, Athens, and Lebanon are just a few here in Tennessee. Read the inventories of early merchants. You will find large orders for books, and transportation was too difficult and expensive to waste space on anything but the most popular merchandise. Notice the names given to their children. Some are from such obscure Bible and literary references that they had to be avid readers to have found those names. Joyce