US EDITION OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST MAGAZINE
Education
Lucretius knew a thing or two about politicians bringing their own country to ruins
Peter Jones
The Greeks are better thought of as overseas settlers, often driven by land hunger, starvation, commerce or simply the search for a better life.
Augustus ruled the Roman empire from 27 BC to AD 14 and was the longest serving of the roughly seventy emperors of the Western empire
The ancients saw no immorality in empire or slavery, the first admirable, the second entirely normal
Europe
How the fall of Rome made the world modern
Walter Scheidel