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The Ancient Art of Growing Old
  • Published: 18 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9780099573180
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $29.99

The Ancient Art of Growing Old

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5 Mar 2015
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18 Apr 2016
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An original, accessible exploration of Greek and Latin wisdom on age and ageing

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.
  • Published: 18 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9780099573180
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Tom Payne

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).
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Praise for The Ancient Art of Growing Old

As Britain gets ever greyer, this is not merely a witty and panoramic survey of old age in the classical world, but a timely one. The wisdom of the ancients indeed

TOM HOLLAND