The way we think and approach life nowadays is rooted in Greek and Latin antiquity. There is where the belief…
Tag: Classics
Greed is clearly unjust, but is it foolish? In Book 1 of Plato’s Republic, Thrasymachus defends the value of injustice…
Thomas Nail writes about Venus as the desire of gods and men in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura. She is not only the external object of desire of the other gods and of men; she is the desire itself.
When compared to Juvenal or Horace (the two most prominent figures of Roman satire in sixteenth and seventeenth century England),…