Tag Archives: Cicero

Is history good for you? Pros and cons

November 4, 2019

Pro “ . . . a page of history is worth a volume of logic.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” – George Santayana “A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.” – Sioux proverb “[History is] a pact between the dead, […]

Our attitudes towards disease, a Ciceronian legacy

January 22, 2017

Andrés D. Pelavski Barcelona, Spain   Bust of Cicero, 1st century Capitoline Museums, Rome Personal letters provide a window into the beliefs, perceptions, and patterns of interpersonal interaction within a society at a given period. Considering that health issues are part of humans’ daily concerns, epistles are a great testimony to the manner in which […]