A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

by Emma Southon

Herodes Atticus was the kind of man who has been effectively eliminated in the modern West, except in England. He’s a figure like Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg who can only exist in a society that has an ancient aristocracy, immense inequality and a belief that the rich are just somehow fundamentally better at things than the rest of us.