作者: 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 …

‘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 …

‘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 …

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 …