Auteur: Miriam T. Griffin

Seneca’s De Beneficiis (On Benefits) is the only work surviving from antiquity that discusses the exchange of gifts and services. Though the topic is of great importance, in practical moral philosoph …

‘any service I may have rendered my countrymen in my active life I may also extend to them… now that I am at leisure’Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome’s greatest orator, had a career of inten …

‘any service I may have rendered my countrymen in my active life I may also extend to them… now that I am at leisure’Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome’s greatest orator, had a career of inten …

Nero’s personality and crimes have always intrigued historians and writers of fiction. However, his reign also illuminates the nature of the Julio-Claudian Principate. Nero’s suicide brought to an en …