Epitaphs from Ancient Rome and Greece provide an abundance of primary source material. It was the Roman orator Cicero who claimed the life of the dead is placed…

In his famous letter to Menoeceus, the philosopher Epicurus argues that we should become accustomed to the belief that death means nothing to us. That the fear…

In our previous post discussing the intentions of the Roman proconsul Titus Quinctius Flamininus when he proclaimed the Freedom of the Greeks at the Isthmian Ga…

At the Isthmian Games in 196 B.C., the Roman proconsul Titus Quinctius Flamininus proclaimed the ‘Freedom of the Greeks’ as the outcome of the second Macedonian…