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 tu
rns 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 tr
anslation of Cicero's 'On Old Age', reveals the true art of growing old graceful
ly.
