Massimo Pigliucci is moved by a 2,000 year old letter. The time is around 90 CE, and Plutarch of Chaeronea in Greece is travelling when news reaches him of the death of his two-year-old daughter ...

Yolanda De Iuliis looks at how Roman Mithraism incorporated Stoic philosophy. Mithraism’s adoption and integration of Stoic virtues is compelling and noteworthy. These virtues not only shaped the ...

One of the most colourful and engaging of modern philosophers (and of Philosophy Now contributors) is recalled by Robert Holmes, Barry Gan and Tim Madigan. I first became acquainted with Richard ...

Luc de Brabandere summarises a long history through key figures of thought. In Greece in the fifth century BC, some public speakers who were certainly cultured but who were also unscrupulous, made the ...

Sam Spound explains why the author of The Prince thought about Rome so much. In late 2023, on social media, many women expressed surprise to discover how often their boyfriends thought of ancient Rome ...

Cassandra Brandt offers the reflections of a sedentary Stoic. “It is a paradox that we encounter so much internal noise when we first try to sit in silence. It is a paradox that experiencing pain ...

“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And ...