The emperor took a largely eirenic view of angry mobs
By Peter Jones
Pliny looked for a civilizing and harmonious co-operation between the arts of man and the arts of nature
By Peter Jones
The more intelligent student might find Cicero’s ideals rather attractive
By Peter Jones
As Cicero saw, all citizens, of whatever color, have obligations to other citizens, of whatever color
By Peter Jones
Pliny devoted a lot of time to denigrating all forms of superstition and magic
By Peter Jones
There is a case for saying that racism is the antisocial construct
By Peter Jones
The ancient world was one in which there were laws, but no concept of human rights, or of the sanctity of life
By Peter Jones
For Aristotle, and eventually Plato too, while personal autarkeia was an ideal, only a city-state could deliver it
By Peter Jones
What is democratic about the way we do impeachment?
By Peter Jones
There was a tradition of preserving death masks of the departed, complete with lists of achievements
By Peter Jones
For the modern journalist, rumor and inside sources, however attractive, often generate only fake news
By Peter Jones
Julius Caesar was very sensitive about his baldness, combing his thinning hair upwards over his crown
By Peter Jones
Pericles’s vision was that of a highly civilized man who loved his people
By Peter Jones
Whatever one makes of the accuracy of the journalist Michael Wolff’s depiction of President Trump, it cannot all be the product of an overheated imagination. What makes it so interesting is that his picture of total dysfunctionality is typical of Roman historians’ accounts of many emperors. Suetonius (d. c. ad 125), for example, was a […]
By Peter Jones
