Peter Jones

Many commentators have criticized the film Gladiator II on technical aspects of the fighting. But there was so much more to gladiators than that

The former British PM’s memoir imagines him, like Cincinnatus, leaving his plow, saving Rome, and returning to it. But perhaps Alcibiades would fit him better

Consider the ancient Greek understanding of the natural world

The ancients had neither police nor prisons

It would make a pleasant change if they were to make it their ambition to be honestus