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Cicero
Cicero’s dialogue on old age recommended remaining active both physically and mentally and regarding death as something to be welcomed
We are living posthumous lives amid the shells of the institutions that once animated our political life
‘If there is a guiding thread through most of my books, it is an aversion to certainty and a fondness for those who doubt’
By acting justly, Cicero concluded, ‘our government could be called more accurately a protectorate of the world rather than an empire’
A Princeton professor wants Classics to disappear because it has been used as a justification for slavery, colonialism and fascism
The Biden administration has taken up permanent residence in a metaverse of its own fantasies
He understood we should treat our elders with charity, not cast them as bigots
The ancients saw no immorality in empire or slavery, the first admirable, the second entirely normal
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler reviewed
