Gladiatorial games and chariot-races provided opportunities for the plebs to display their feelings
By Peter Jones
Tacitus made the Caledonian leader Calgacus remark that Romans ‘make a desert and call it peace’
By Peter Jones
The gymnast displayed a self-awareness in line with the Delphic maxims
By Peter Jones
The Cambridge Greek Lexicon reviewed
By Peter Jones
Aristotle said that ‘the athlete’s habit of body does not produce a good condition for the general purposes of life’
By Peter Jones
For Romans, in contrast to Greeks, likeness was of the highest importance
By Peter Jones
Vitriolic pamphlets directed against Augustus were initially met with written rebuttals
By Peter Jones
Charles, Prince of Wales, is having a little trouble with his son Harry
By Peter Jones
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
