Greco-Roman culture was defined by the transmission of educational foundations throughout lands ruled by Greece and Rome. Literary works provide overwhelming evidence of a shared body of knowledge between the educated classes of the Greco-Roman era, as exemplified by hundreds of Greek papyrus volumes found in a Roman villa near Herculaneum. Romans frequently attended schools in Greece, as known from the lives of figures like Cicero and Julius Caesar, and the dual Latin and Greek inscriptions of Augustus's Res Gestae demonstrated official recognition of the common Greco-Roman culture.

1. Greco-Roman Culture

2. Greco-Roman Culture
 the foundations of education were transmitted
throughout the lands of Greek and Roman rule.

3. Furthermore:
Within its educated class spanning all of the
"Greco-Roman" era, the testimony of literary borrowings
and influences is overwhelming proof of a mantle of
mutual knowledge.

4. For example:
 Hundred papyrus volumes found in a Roman villa
at Herculaneum are in Greek
Papyrus-refers to a thick type of paper made from
the pith of the papyrus plant

5. From the lives of Cicero and Julius
Caesar:
it is known that Romans frequented
the schools in Greece.

6. The Installation:
 Both in Greek and Latin, of Augustus's
monumental eulogy, the Res Gestae, is
a proof of official recognition for the
dual vehicles of the common culture.

7. The familiarity of figures from Roman legend and history
in the "Parallel Lives" composed by Plutarch is one
example of the extent to which "universal history" was
then synonymous with the accomplishments of famous
Latin's and Hellenes.
Most educated Romans were likely bilingual in Greek
and Latin.
Plutarch- A Greek biographer and essayist