a haunting midlife
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ageing
ancient
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aristotle and dante
Author_Tom Payne
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cicero
dante and aristotle
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getting older
greek
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history
living at 40
lore of olympus
midlife method
monumental myths
philosophy
positive ageing plan
roman non-fiction
rome
routledge classics
seneca
senior moments
socrates
tacitus annals
the aging
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- ISBN 9780099573180
- Weight: 173g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 04 Feb 2016
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Bette Davis said ‘Old age ain’t no place for sissies’. If that’s true, we could all use a little help as we approach our twilight years. Translator Tom Payne turns to Ovid, Seneca, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aristophanes to discover invigorating counsel on mental decline, medicine, late love affairs, death and legacy. This lively tour of ancient attitudes to ageing, supplemented by a translation of Cicero’s ‘On Old Age’, reveals the true art of growing old gracefully.
Tom Payne was born in 1971. He read Classics at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and was deputy literary editor of the Daily Telegraph. He now lives with his wife and four children in Dorset, where he teaches English and Classics at Sherborne School, and Latin at the Gryphon School. His previous books are Fame: from the Bronze Age to Britney, and a verse translation of Ovid's The Art of Love (both in Vintage).
