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On Old Age, the Roman politician, orator, and philosopher Cicero advocates for the dignity and value of growing old. But his is a voice of privilege, which discounts women and the enslaved.
Politicians like Cicero saw gladiators as vain and self-indulgent, while the true warriors engaged in wars of words.
Roman writers set out a playbook for rhetoric but also worried about morals and power.
This 18th-century history of piracy mixes fanciful invention with accurate accounts taken from contemporary newspapers and court records.
AI systems with deceptive capabilities could be misused in numerous ways by bad actors. Or, they may become prone to behaving in ways their creators never intended.
Although he privately disapproved of Caesar’s power, Cicero publicly supported him and Cicero also directly contributed to the end of the Roman Republic and the reign of Caesar’s nephew Augustus.
The ethics of idleness have been debated for thousands of years.
The plants a Roman chose could say a lot about the person they were.
With much public discussion of President Donald Trump as, potentially, a king, a scholar of Roman history and rhetoric sees 2,000-year-old parallels.
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