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“... and its effect on his family’s prospects, filled him with despair and remorse. Both Mitchell and Christian Habicht note Cicero’s practice of eventually blaming himself for his mistakes, however much he had originally blamed others. Habicht’s pithy Cicero the Politician has a lot in common with Mitchell’s study ...”

“... modernism was always contemplating, and often attempting to cut away, its own roots in Judaeo-Christian thought. Greek religion was, crudely speaking, what Christianity had replaced in the eastern Roman Empire. It was necessary to understand Greek religion if one wished to understand the formative influence of Christianity on European thought. For some ...”