Peter Jones

Ancient and Modern – 15 August 2003

A classicist draws on ancient wisdom to illuminate contemporary follies

issue 16 August 2003

It is fashionable to dismiss the ancient historians’ descriptions of tyrannical Roman emperors as so much literary stereotyping. But the evidence offered by, e.g., Saddam and his dreadful sons might give one pause; and now the palace of Caligula (Roman emperor ad 37

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