Despairing at the state of the world? The ancient Greeks and Romans knew the feeling
- Written by Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia
Heraclitus -- Johannes Moreelse (c.1630)Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsIf you’re feeling fed up with the way things are in the world, then, no matter your politics, you are experiencing an emotion people have felt for millennia.
Perhaps you feel helpless. Maybe you feel like the character in the Roman dramatist Terence’s play The...





