Peter Jones
Easier said than done, perhaps, as one thinker, Plutarch, acknowledged — but that’s life
A degree of corpulence was the sign of a rich, healthy and prosperous man. But obesity turned one into a figure of fun or ignominy
‘I died of a surfeit of doctors,’ read one Roman funerary inscription. But where did this surfeit come from?
Seneca would have seen King Charles’s reaction as an admirable act of mercy
