It rapidly becomes clear that farming is no joyride
By Peter Jones
In his Republic, Plato proposed women should regulate family and sexual affairs
By Peter Jones
The closer to the voters the people involved in making the laws, the better the chance of their general acceptance
By Peter Jones
Though a soldier to the core, as consort he saw clearly where his duty lay
By Peter Jones
Classical elites were susceptible to fabrications of self-importance
By Peter Jones
Epictetus argued that mental problems arose from the way you thought about them
By Peter Jones
The ancients saw no immorality in empire or slavery, the first admirable, the second entirely normal
By Peter Jones
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
