Table of Contents

1: Lifespan 2: Young versus old: a brief digression 3: The death of children 4: The trials of old age 5: Facing up to death 6: Exemplary and ignominious deaths 7: Cicero's De Senectute: 'On Old Age' . 8: Death and burial 9: Epitaphs and the afterlife 10: Epilogue: Memento Mori

About the Author

Peter Jones was educated at Cambridge University and taught Classics at Cambridge and at Newcastle University, before retiring in 1997. He has written a regular column, 'Ancient & Modern', in the Spectator for many years and is the author of various books on the Classics, including the bestselling Learn Latin and Learn Ancient Greek, as well as Reading Virgil's Aeneid I and II, Vote for Caesar, Veni, Vidi, Vici, Eureka! and Quid Pro Quo.

Reviews

Fascinating... It is learned but an easy read, a rare combination.
*Daily Telegraph*

An often amusing, always illuminating, guide which offers an intriguing vantage point at which to examine Roman life.
*All About History*

An enjoyable, engaging and educational book that makes ancient attitudes on mortality accessible to us all.
*Lucia Marchini, Minerva*

'Like everything else Jones writes, Eureka! is packed with intriguing nuggets for novices and experts alike... He flits between the beautiful and the banal, never missing a good story' Natalie Haynes, The Times
*Natalie Haynes, The Times, on Eureka!*

Jones is a storyteller at heart, unashamed to entertain while educating by stealth, as all the best teachers do.
*Spectator on Eureka*