How To Grieve
Your Step By Step Guide To Grieving

This is an odd but interesting entry in Princeton Press's Classical Wisdom for Modern Readers. How to Grieve was written by the ancient Roman advocate, statesman, and philosopher Marcus Tulles Cicero. But the manuscript has been lost. So what is being presented here? What translator Michael Fontaine......more

I was worried this might go over my head. Then I discovered men making shit up to back up their own ideas and shutting down refutes is as ancient as the species. His love for his daughter and pain at her loss echos as true across the essay. Stoicism has its strengths but emotions are a necessary par......more

this book is not fully written by cicero, it was taken from a lot of his different texts, and pasted together with some quotations and footnotes from the secondary author. considering how long ago cicero lived, i am impressed by some of the ways he talks about transgressing sexist norms. nonetheless......more

Overall, I continue to enjoy reading the "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers" series. Each entry reinforces my belief that - although it's not necessarily a popular view right now - many "dead white males" still have important lessons to teach anyone willing to learn them. Having said that, this entry......more

So I didn’t realize that this book has the left side of each pair of pages in Latin, and the right side is in English. So this made it a very quick read for me. While I don’t disagree with the premise that death is an ultimately human experience, that is unavoidable and ought to be discussed and pre......more