What were the Greeks and Romans like? Their letters suggest they weren’t so different from us
- Written by Konstantine Panegyres, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, researching Greco-Roman antiquity, The University of Melbourne
Ancient Greek clay statues of ordinary people, 3–1 century BCEGary Todd/Wikimedia CommonsWhen we read about the Greco-Roman world, we often hear the stories of famous and wealthy men and women. But the letters of ordinary people, preserved on papyri in Egypt, show us what they were thinking and doing. Human nature, their contents suggest,...
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