There’s a volume of pickings from “Twelve Caesars” author Suetonius assembled under the title How To Be a Bad Emperor, for instance, and one by famous suicide Seneca titled How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life. It consists of neat little palm-sized hardcover volumes presenting the aforementioned modern readers with the writing - and the claim of wisdom - of writers from Ancient Greece and Rome. The “Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers” series by Princeton University Press is an encouraging but decidedly odd thing. Princeton University Press, 2020 How To Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving Selected & translated by Stephen Harrison How To Be Content: An Ancient Poet’s Guide for an Age of Excess
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