Ciceronianus; causidicus

Cicero wrote a dialogue called  De Re Publica, which has sometimes been referred to as his Republic a la that of Plato, but is more proper...

This will be another rather fluffy post to relieve the dreariness of these times, or at least the dreariness of my mind. As some few of us...

During the Reagan administration, inspired perhaps by a message conveyed to that President and his nay-saying wife by their favorite astrolo...

Nietzsche famously, or infamously depending on your perspective, condemned the Stoics (in his understated way) thusly: You desire to LIVE ...

I'm an admirer of Hemingway's work, for the most part.  I'm not all that fond of his novels, except for The Sun Also Rises.  It ...