MEMENTO MORI / WHAT THE ROMANS CAN TELL US ABOUT OLD AGE AND DEATH

In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problem s associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two thousand years ag o.Romans inhabited a world where man, knowing nothing about hygiene let alone disease, had no defences against nature. Death was eve rywhere. Half of all Roman children were dead by the age of five. Only eight per cent of the population made it over sixty. One biza rre resu...[Read more]