[59] Why did Hercules and the Muses have an altar in common?
Is it because Hercules taught Evander’s people the use of letters, as Juba[136] has recorded? And this action was held to be noble on the part of men who taught their friends and relatives. It was a long time before they began to teach for pay, and the first to open an elementary school was Spurius Carvilius,[137] a freedman of the Carvilius[138] who was the first to divorce his wife.